Windows 7 End of Life Countdown
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@Dashrender said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
@dbeato said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
T Minus 15 (Days)
Two weeks and a day until Windows 7 is no longer supported, and the upgrade options to Windows 10 evaporate.
What do you mean the upgrade options? Like all the sudden a Windows 10 USB or Disc will stop supporting the upgrade?
This is my question as well.
Perhaps Scott believes that the free upgrade will no longer be free after support is dumped.
I believe it because we dug into it and it's very clear that that is what the license says.
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@JaredBusch said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
@Dashrender said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
@dbeato said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
T Minus 15 (Days)
Two weeks and a day until Windows 7 is no longer supported, and the upgrade options to Windows 10 evaporate.
What do you mean the upgrade options? Like all the sudden a Windows 10 USB or Disc will stop supporting the upgrade?
This is my question as well.
Perhaps Scott believes that the free upgrade will no longer be free after support is dumped.
Without rereading the thread we have on the subject, I believe it has to be a "Supported" install of Windows 7. After the cut, it is no linger a supported system.
Does this mean the upgrade will not work? Most likely it will still work. But the legal verbiage is what matters. always has.
Right, according to the EULA, the upgrade to Windows 10 exists only from a currently supported OS. Windows 7 Pro qualifies as a Windows 10 license until January 14th, at which time it is not supported and the license to go to Windows 10 "evaporates." Just like it did for Windows 8.
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This is the thread where we dug into it and determined that Windows 8 was not an option because support had expired. Currently supported is a requirement for the Windows 10 license.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/20302/free-upgrade-to-windows-10-in-2019-from-windows-7-and-windows-8-1
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I'll post it again here for easy reference.
Windows 10 Upgrade applicability:
What is genuine:
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i thought the "Free Upgrade" offer expired a while back?
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@hobbit666 said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
i thought the "Free Upgrade" offer expired a while back?
A free upgrade did, there has always been one, then replaced by another. The free upgrade process has always been there, but there have been three or four different programs for it. So yes, lots of expired. But overall free upgrades have never expired.
So many threads on that here
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@Obsolesce thanks, that's the verbage we saw
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Non-genuine and unsupported are different in my eyes, but whatever Microsoft
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@IRJ said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
Non-genuine and unsupported are different in my eyes, but whatever Microsoft
Maybe Balmer was beating on a keyboard for that one.
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@JaredBusch said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
@IRJ said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
Non-genuine and unsupported are different in my eyes, but whatever Microsoft
Maybe Balmer was beating on a keyboard for that one.
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@black3dynamite said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
@JaredBusch said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
@IRJ said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
Non-genuine and unsupported are different in my eyes, but whatever Microsoft
Maybe Balmer was beating on a keyboard for that one.
He's showing what he did to MS
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This all reminds me of.
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One more day!!
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It is the 14th. Hours left to go.
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Just started getting full-screen, End Of Support warnings from Microsoft, on the few legacy PCs here
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@warren-stanley said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:
Just started getting full-screen, End Of Support warnings from Microsoft, on the few legacy PCs here
yeah I'm looking forward to what my one user will see.
We have two Win7 and one Win XP (not counting any possible embedded systems - I know the Ultrasound machine is Windows underneath, but don't recall what version) still running here - soon to be one and one. Both needed for legacy EHR stuff, they'll be moving to a non-internet accessible network leg shortly.
