MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert
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This should induce a full blown home user panic
Microsoft announced that starting January 15, 2020, it will start displaying full-screen alerts. They will describe the risks of using Windows 7 Service Pack 1 after discontinuing support on January 14, 2020.
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Haha yep, cant wait!
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I don't know of any home users still on 7. Nobody keeps a device that long, and would have something later than Win7.
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@Obsolesce I know several unfortunately.
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@jmoore said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce I know several unfortunately.
How? They bought the device with Win7 pre-installed by the manufacturer?
I know the technical deadline was 2016 sometime, but by then Win10 was mainstream haha.
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@Obsolesce Yes they bought it new with win 7 and they still have it somehow
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@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
I don't know of any home users still on 7. Nobody keeps a device that long, and would have something later than Win7.
SO many people keep devices that long. And tons of people were putting Windows 7 onto machines purchased with Windows 10, even recently.
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@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@jmoore said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce I know several unfortunately.
How? They bought the device with Win7 pre-installed by the manufacturer?
I know the technical deadline was 2016 sometime, but by then Win10 was mainstream haha.
Yup, because of downgrade rights a lot of manufacturers were still selling Windows 7 installed until far, far too recently.
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@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@jmoore said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce I know several unfortunately.
How? They bought the device with Win7 pre-installed by the manufacturer?
I know the technical deadline was 2016 sometime, but by then Win10 was mainstream haha.
I seen a few in a school environment of users that uses there own device still on Win7.
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@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@jmoore said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce I know several unfortunately.
How? They bought the device with Win7 pre-installed by the manufacturer?
I know the technical deadline was 2016 sometime, but by then Win10 was mainstream haha.
Home users don't all go by the 3-5 year refresh cycle. I know plenty of people still running 7 (including the recording PC in our studio).
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@RojoLoco said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@jmoore said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce I know several unfortunately.
How? They bought the device with Win7 pre-installed by the manufacturer?
I know the technical deadline was 2016 sometime, but by then Win10 was mainstream haha.
Home users don't all go by the 3-5 year refresh cycle. I know plenty of people still running 7 (including the recording PC in our studio).
Yeah, loads and loads. In fact, nearly every home user I know because Windows 7 is "good enough" and other than gamers, machines from that era are usually still quite good.
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Well, at least they are going about it correctly IMO, displaying a full screen ad to ensure the end-user sees it and is aware, but also allowing the user to never show it again. Because, continuing to use it afterwards is extremely dangerous.
I can't say the same for some other OSs.
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@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
I don't know of any home users still on 7. Nobody keeps a device that long, and would have something later than Win7.
huh, I know many. A few here have been asking about this - I told them.. just buy a new computer, if you still have Windows 7 at home, you really just need a new computer.
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@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@jmoore said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce I know several unfortunately.
How? They bought the device with Win7 pre-installed by the manufacturer?
I know the technical deadline was 2016 sometime, but by then Win10 was mainstream haha.
yep.. we're talking 8+ year old computers... hell, my office has many 6+ year old computers in it.
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@scottalanmiller said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@RojoLoco said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@jmoore said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce I know several unfortunately.
How? They bought the device with Win7 pre-installed by the manufacturer?
I know the technical deadline was 2016 sometime, but by then Win10 was mainstream haha.
Home users don't all go by the 3-5 year refresh cycle. I know plenty of people still running 7 (including the recording PC in our studio).
Yeah, loads and loads. In fact, nearly every home user I know because Windows 7 is "good enough" and other than gamers, machines from that era are usually still quite good.
Exactly, as long as you didn't buy bottom of the barrel, it probably handles surfing the web just fine.
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@Dashrender said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
I don't know of any home users still on 7. Nobody keeps a device that long, and would have something later than Win7.
huh, I know many. A few here have been asking about this - I told them.. just buy a new computer, if you still have Windows 7 at home, you really just need a new computer.
Agree with that. I wish people would do that.
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@jmoore said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Dashrender said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
I don't know of any home users still on 7. Nobody keeps a device that long, and would have something later than Win7.
huh, I know many. A few here have been asking about this - I told them.. just buy a new computer, if you still have Windows 7 at home, you really just need a new computer.
Agree with that. I wish people would do that.
Well - I don't have to support them for free, so the only free thing they get is my advice to buy a new PC. which in one case, they did!
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@Dashrender said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
I don't know of any home users still on 7. Nobody keeps a device that long, and would have something later than Win7.
huh, I know many. A few here have been asking about this - I told them.. just buy a new computer, if you still have Windows 7 at home, you really just need a new computer.
Why would they need a new computer? I can't follow this logic. Everyone seems to say this, but it seems like everyone is just blowing off users. Why would a computer that currently runs Windows 7 be considered automatically so old as to be useless? The majority that I run into are just fine hardware for their users today. We've got both commercial customers and home users just updating their software and running great on what you automatically consider to be worthless hardware.
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@Dashrender said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@jmoore said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce I know several unfortunately.
How? They bought the device with Win7 pre-installed by the manufacturer?
I know the technical deadline was 2016 sometime, but by then Win10 was mainstream haha.
yep.. we're talking 8+ year old computers... hell, my office has many 6+ year old computers in it.
Two false assumptions....
Windows 7 is ancient, but doesn't mean that the hardware is old. Windows 7 might be on pretty new hardware, even as little as like two years old.
Second, eight years old isn't even close to where you would ever "automatically throw it out".
hell, I want all this "old" hardware you are convincing people not to keep!
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@Dashrender said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@scottalanmiller said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@RojoLoco said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@jmoore said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:
@Obsolesce I know several unfortunately.
How? They bought the device with Win7 pre-installed by the manufacturer?
I know the technical deadline was 2016 sometime, but by then Win10 was mainstream haha.
Home users don't all go by the 3-5 year refresh cycle. I know plenty of people still running 7 (including the recording PC in our studio).
Yeah, loads and loads. In fact, nearly every home user I know because Windows 7 is "good enough" and other than gamers, machines from that era are usually still quite good.
Exactly, as long as you didn't buy bottom of the barrel, it probably handles surfing the web just fine.
Exactly. Especially if you update to Windows 10 or way better, a Linux variant. It's not hard to get eight year old machines working better than they did new!
