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Raising this dead article as Microsoft now delivers extended support pricing details for those who choose not to migrate to the newer version of Windows. The one they were told they’d not ever have to migrate to

  • pacoboyd@lemm.eeEnglish
    658·
    6 months ago

    I’ll probably get down voted to oblivion, but I remember EVERYONE had the same “I’ll never move” rhetoric with Windows 7, and before that Windows XP. Ya’ll eventually move.

    I’ve moved 3 of my 6 windows boxes from 10 to 11 and it’s not that much different. I just debloat the stuff I don’t want and move on. Even that isn’t different, ya’ll remember nlite? We’ve been ripping crap we didn’t want out of the OS for as long as I can remember.

    Hell, I even remeber getting doublespace.exe off my old dos 5 disks so I could use it on my dos 6 and Windows 3.1.1 install. People who use Windows are just more used to tearing down what they don’t want rather than building up what they do (*nix). Is it harder these days…marginally…is there more to remove…yup. But it’s still the same crap we’ve always done.

    • DharkStare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      444·
      6 months ago

      The difference this time is that my computer literally can’t run Win 11. I’m not throwing away a perfectly good PC just because of Win 11’s hardware requirements.

      • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        6 months ago

        If you still need/want to run Windows 11, you can download the ISO from Microsoft, and burn it to an USB Stick using Rufus.
        Rufus lets you disable all those requirements.

        But I wouldn’t count on it working forever. Any Update could break your OS, cause Microsoft expects you to install it on conforming hardware.

      • Klanky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        So I WAS on 11 until all of the sudden my computer refused to boot with the special hardware thing enabled. Had to downgrade to Windows 10 and the mobo manufacturer’s response was ‘try replacing every other part in your PC’…sorry I don’t have the money to have spare parts of everything just lying around. 10 works perfectly fine, and it’ll give me an excuse to upgrade my mobo in Oct 2025. :-)

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      6 months ago

      I remember EVERYONE had the same “I’ll never move” rhetoric with Windows 7

      I did eventually move… to Linux. Windows 7 was the last version of Windows I’ve had installed on any machine I own.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Dude stop reminding me how old I am. I just discovered arthritis bones that my favorite grandma decided to give me this morning.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I never upgraded from Win 7. I used in untill Steam stopped its support and now my gaming rig runs on Linux.

    • toddestan@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Well, if you’re sticking with Windows, you really have no choice. The sun is rapidly setting on using Windows 7 as a “daily driver” - a lot of new software doesn’t support it and the older versions that work on Windows 7 are getting less and less viable. Windows 8 is in the same boat as Windows 7. Windows 10 goes out of support next year, but you’ve probably got to 2028 or maybe 2029 before you really have to move.

      I ended up riding Windows 7 pretty much to the bitter end. Steam dropping Windows 7 support last December was it for the last Windows box. Everything now is running Linux.