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Lengthen the life of Windows 7 using the legal system
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:39:38 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:01:33 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: One might wonder what's obsolete about Windows 7, and who gets to make the determination in the first place? It certainly doesn't seem obsolete to me. In fact, it seems to be much more functional and stable than 10, although that opinion isn't universal. I don't agree. In my experience, both Windows 7 and 10 are almost completely stable. I don't remember any Windows 10 crashes here. I wasn't referring to crashes. I was referring to having a stable computing platform that can be counted on to be ready to go when the user is ready to go. Clearly, Windows 10 misses that mark by a country mile. There's a segment of the computing public for which Windows 10 is just fine. Within that segment, you have people who just don't know any better, or people who use their computer for non-work activities who, at the most, are only inconvenienced by the weaknesses of Windows 10. I might say that they don't really care, or they've otherwise somehow come to grips with the idea that this is just how it is and how it's going to be. Kudos to that group, because they've made their lives a bit easier. But there's another segment of the computing public who need more platform stability, there's that word again, than Windows 10 can deliver. I can't say for sure, but I assume there will come a time, perhaps when I'm in retirement, where the current behavior of Windows 10 would put me into the first segment above, but at the moment, still being in the workforce and needing a computer to do my work, I'm very clearly in the second segment, where Windows 10 falls very short. Can MS get it to where it needs to be? I think so, but it's been about a decade now since they've tried to deliver an OS that does what I need, rather than what they (MS) want for it. Their goals, and my goals, are slipping further apart rather than getting closer. Also in my experience, Windows 10 is just as functional as Windows 7. Anything that can be done in Windows 7 can also be done in Window 10. Some days that's true. Other days it's not. From that perspective, things are much worse now than they were before Windows 10 came onto the scene. When you're using a computer for work, there are lots of times when you need it right now, not in 10 minutes or an hour, when it decides it's ready to be available. You're retired, so maybe none of it really matters to you. If the computer isn't ready to work, you can get up and get a cup of coffee. You can go for a walk or run an errand. I, and others like me who use a computer for work, don't have that luxury. Fortunately, we still have options. For me, that's Windows 7 and a highly customized Windows 8.1. Highly customized because it literally took me two years to get Windows 8.1 tamed to where I could start to depend on it. I could do it faster now, of course, but back then it was new and people were in the midst of discovering and remediating the various weaknesses and shortcomings. Now we're in the same situation with Windows 10, but so far we're finding that the most egregious behaviors have no easy remedies. |
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