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Post by pcpa on Sept 13, 2021 21:34:17 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2021 15:42:11 GMT 1
Depending which source you consult there are between 100 and 200 million PC users still happy with Windows 7. Happy with Windows 7 or still using it?
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Post by ibis on Sept 14, 2021 15:49:11 GMT 1
Depending which source you consult there are between 100 and 200 million PC users still happy with Windows 7. Happy with Windows 7 or still using it? Or to old to learn a new operating system? Important now that there is no click malware circulating.
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Post by Aardvark on Sept 14, 2021 16:24:05 GMT 1
I think one can safely assume they are happy with it, since Microsoft used every trick in the book to cajole people into accepting W8 and the even worse shite that followed. They even went so far as to offer a free upgrade (shock horror). Many people might not have noticed that some computers were upgraded by remote control by Microsoft without the owners' permission to do so attracting much criticism and were threatened with lawsuits. How dare the great unwashed resist Microsofts bullying!
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Post by spectrum on Sept 16, 2021 13:58:47 GMT 1
Don't know why you lot are complaining I'am running Stained Glass Windows 98
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Post by Aardvark on Sept 16, 2021 17:30:39 GMT 1
I was never all that keen on the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).
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Post by robertarthur on Sept 19, 2021 21:56:35 GMT 1
The list of W11 supported CPUs starts with the 8th generation (Coffee Lake) of the Intel I3/I5/I7 family, a no go for many owners of rather new computers. This is the Microsoft list, still being updated. The same picture for many AMD processors- even those marketed in 2017. I'm not going to upgrade, my two computers with 3rd and 4th generation I5s still working without any problems. One with W7, the other one after repairing W10 related update issues....
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Post by Aardvark on Sept 20, 2021 9:39:45 GMT 1
People better pray the new electric wondercars don't use Microsoft systems. Otherwise their cars as well as their computers will have to be dumped in order to operate with the latest Microsoft moneyspinner.
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Post by robertarthur on Sept 20, 2021 10:04:25 GMT 1
The US Navy had already problems in 1998 with Windows NT, the destroyer USS Yorktown was for two-and-a-half hours " dead in the water". From Wikipedia: "The ship was equipped with a network of 27 dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro-based machines running Windows NT 4.0 communicating over fiber-optic cable." Follow-up, many years later: they are now ditching touchscreens.
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Post by rabbit on Sept 20, 2021 10:05:23 GMT 1
Someone quoted 200m users of Windows 7. Then there are the other 1.5billion using other versions. Here lies Microsoft problem. Thousands of different hw manufacturers thousands of different drivers all of which can induce errors. Plus users running machines out of spec with insufficient memory and viruses. MS cannot test everything
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Post by another on Sept 20, 2021 20:33:14 GMT 1
And I own around half a dozen of them!
To use contemporary parlance, 'woke' users should be able to safely employ W7 for many years to come.
I do run 10 on an ACER 2in1 laptop but only because under 7 the tablet functions do not work properly.
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