Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free upgrades
from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 or 11.
-
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/289957/microsoft-quietly-kills-free-windows-10-11-upgrades-from-windows-7-8
Zaghadka wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:19:26 +0100, wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> wrote:
Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free upgrades >>>from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 or 11.
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https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/289957/microsoft-quietly-kills-free-windows-10-11-upgrades-from-windows-7-8
Serves people right if they are still actually on those OSes.
You got your wish people. No more need to block the update.
Yes, and Win7 users got lots of forewarnings; not the least being
withdrawal of updates and all other support.
I rather think MS did this in a very user-friendly manner, and I commend >them.
"Quietly kills" has overtones of reprehensible behaviour. I read it as >"Totally predictable final action".
Ed
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:19:26 +0100, wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> wrote:
Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free upgrades >>from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 or 11.
-
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/289957/microsoft-quietly-kills-free-windows-10-11-upgrades-from-windows-7-8
Serves people right if they are still actually on those OSes.
You got your wish people. No more need to block the update.
Zaghadka wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:19:26 +0100, wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> wrote:
Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free upgrades >>>from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 or 11.
-
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/289957/microsoft-quietly-kills-free-windows-10-11-upgrades-from-windows-7-8
Serves people right if they are still actually on those OSes.
You got your wish people. No more need to block the update.
Yes, and Win7 users got lots of forewarnings; not the least being
withdrawal of updates and all other support.
I rather think MS did this in a very user-friendly manner, and I commend >them.
"Quietly kills" has overtones of reprehensible behaviour. I read it as >"Totally predictable final action".
Zaghadka wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:19:26 +0100, wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> wrote:
Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free upgrades >>> from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 or 11.
-
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/289957/microsoft-quietly-kills-free-windows-10-11-upgrades-from-windows-7-8
Serves people right if they are still actually on those OSes.
You got your wish people. No more need to block the update.
Yes, and Win7 users got lots of forewarnings; not the least being withdrawal of updates and all other support.
I rather think MS did this in a very user-friendly manner, and I commend them.
"Quietly kills" has overtones of reprehensible behaviour. I read it as "Totally predictable final action".
Ed
Am 30.09.2023 um 09:19:26 Uhr schrieb wasbit:
Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free
upgrades from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 or 11.
I can completely understand this, Win 7 is EoL and ESU also ended.
Why should anybody care about such an old OS?
Zaghadka wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:19:26 +0100, wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> wrote:
Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free upgrades >>from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 or 11.
-
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/289957/microsoft-quietly-kills-free-windows-10-11-upgrades-from-windows-7-8
Serves people right if they are still actually on those OSes.
You got your wish people. No more need to block the update.
Yes, and Win7 users got lots of forewarnings; not the least being
withdrawal of updates and all other support.
I rather think MS did this in a very user-friendly manner, and I commend them.
"Quietly kills" has overtones of reprehensible behaviour. I read it as "Totally predictable final action".
Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free
upgrades from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 or 11.
Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free upgrades
from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 or 11.
- https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/289957/microsoft-quietly-kills-free-windows-10-11-upgrades-from-windows-7-8
On 9/30/2023 2:20 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
Zaghadka wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:19:26 +0100, wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> wrote:
Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free upgrades >>>> from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 or 11.
-
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/289957/microsoft-quietly-kills-free-windows-10-11-upgrades-from-windows-7-8
Serves people right if they are still actually on those OSes.
You got your wish people. No more need to block the update.
Yes, and Win7 users got lots of forewarnings; not the least being withdrawal of updates and all other support.
I rather think MS did this in a very user-friendly manner, and I commend them.
"Quietly kills" has overtones of reprehensible behaviour. I read it as "Totally predictable final action".
Ed
Well, it was done with a lot of industry arm-twisting.
An organized effort to kill off browsers for the OS.
The browsers were killed off in synchronized fashion, leaving
something like the modern version of Pale Moon or the like.
And so on.
There is no altruism involved here. It's all about support
costs and testing. That's what kills off OSes. Or
compatible AV products.
Paul
Well, it was done with a lot of industry arm-twisting.
On 30/09/2023 20:48, Paul wrote:
Well, it was done with a lot of industry arm-twisting.What do you mean by Industry arm-twisting? Can you name one company that
is involved?
All the top brands gives you free Windows 10 or Windows 11 pre-installed
on their machines so they can't be twisting any body's arms.
So it leaves hardware manufactures. Are you saying Intel or AMD
involved? Why would they do it because most users don't buy separate motherboards to build their machine. They don't have the knowledge to do
so. If home users are currently using Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 then they
are doing it because their machine might not be suitable for the
upgrade. Their OEM license cannot be transferred to any other machine so their only choice is to buy a new machine and get free windows 10/11 if
they want to start using Windows 10/11.
Microsoft has done this because they decided to shut off the old
server(s) that was used to activate. They can't keep using the server
when hit-rate on it was high. It needs to be replaced periodically and
so they decided to stop supporting old operating systems and cut their
costs.
They can now concentrate on Windows 10 and Windows 11 and when time
comes, they will do the same with Windows 10 and perhaps Windows 11 when Windows 12/13 is released.
There is no arm-twisting by anybody. It is a commercial decision and
would you stop spreading lies here.
Am 30.09.2023 um 09:19:26 Uhr schrieb wasbit:
Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free
upgrades from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 or 11.
I can completely understand this, Win 7 is EoL and ESU also ended.
Why should anybody care about such an old OS?
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