Re: Let’s Chat: Is Windows 7 Really Outdated?
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:12 pm
@ The PA Guy: build any box with a fresh install of Windows and it will run really fast. Especially if you have an SSD. As you probably know, pile on your favourite programs and use the machine for a few years and it will slow down - registry bloat, WU bloat, fragments of half-uninstalled stuff, etc.
It has been a regular tactic of MS, to say that their "old" product is now insecure and that the "new and improved" bleach washes clothes better than ever. "What, you mean you sold me a crappy product when you enticed me to buy windows 7" ? And they said the same thing about XP. *Yawn* While I don't doubt there have been security improvements in win10, that alone is not sufficient to justify changing; especially with the myriad ways at our disposal to secure current OS's and networks.
I absolutely hate the modern "flat look" win10 GUI (win 8.1 also, for that matter!) - ugly square windows, super white blinding backgrounds, the **ugh** ribbon that eats up screen real estate, the start menu, very few customization options. I won't rant about the multiple telemetry, ads in the taskbar, ads on the lock screen, Cortana & Edge that listen in on everything, updates and upgrades that regularly clobber all your settings & personalisation, the pushy "app store" that intrudes even on the legacy desktop, etc.
Windows 7, locked down it is, until 2020; then maybe on to windows 8.1 until 2023. In parallel, Linux Mint for online stuff & eventually all windows machines on a seperate non-internet connected LAN; or Linux machines with VM's running windows. I refuse to waste my time fighting the OS and have my person profiled and monetized.
It has been a regular tactic of MS, to say that their "old" product is now insecure and that the "new and improved" bleach washes clothes better than ever. "What, you mean you sold me a crappy product when you enticed me to buy windows 7" ? And they said the same thing about XP. *Yawn* While I don't doubt there have been security improvements in win10, that alone is not sufficient to justify changing; especially with the myriad ways at our disposal to secure current OS's and networks.
I absolutely hate the modern "flat look" win10 GUI (win 8.1 also, for that matter!) - ugly square windows, super white blinding backgrounds, the **ugh** ribbon that eats up screen real estate, the start menu, very few customization options. I won't rant about the multiple telemetry, ads in the taskbar, ads on the lock screen, Cortana & Edge that listen in on everything, updates and upgrades that regularly clobber all your settings & personalisation, the pushy "app store" that intrudes even on the legacy desktop, etc.
Windows 7, locked down it is, until 2020; then maybe on to windows 8.1 until 2023. In parallel, Linux Mint for online stuff & eventually all windows machines on a seperate non-internet connected LAN; or Linux machines with VM's running windows. I refuse to waste my time fighting the OS and have my person profiled and monetized.