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CaNsA
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PostPosted: 23:42 - 09 Jan 2016    Post subject: Windows 8 getting binned next week. Reply with quote
Windows 8 will reach end of support next week on Tuesday, so all users who are still running it must upgrade to 8.1 as soon as possible.

https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-will-abandon-windows-8-completely-next-week-498662.shtml
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PostPosted: 23:43 - 09 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh well that'll be me moving the wife's onto 10 then.
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PostPosted: 00:05 - 10 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
arry wrote:
Oh well that'll be me moving the wife's onto 10 then.



Tut Tut

W8.1 + Classic shell.
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PostPosted: 00:15 - 10 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not that it affects me as I'm running 8.1 and resisting 'upgrading' to 10 but Shocked 8 is little more than three years old, at least XP had over 13 years before they dropped support.

How long before they quit 8.1? FFS
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PostPosted: 00:23 - 10 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm assuming that's why they're giving 10 away as a freebie
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PostPosted: 10:07 - 10 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
8 was tripe and they know it.
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PostPosted: 11:44 - 10 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm ok till 2020 https://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/lifecycle
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PostPosted: 13:16 - 10 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I suspect that they're going to attempt to move to a bleeding Edge support system. Take the auto-updates or you'll get, at best, a few security dongles shoved in the most gaping holes.

https://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2432747/microsoft-to-force-windows-10-on-users-with-automatic-updates-from-2016
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CaNsA
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PostPosted: 13:53 - 10 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sload wrote:
I'm ok till 2020 https://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/lifecycle


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PostPosted: 15:09 - 10 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sload wrote:
I'm ok till 2020 https://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/lifecycle


Are you sure? According to their own blurb...
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Mainstream support – Microsoft will offer mainstream support for a minimum of 5 years from the date of a product’s general availability. For example, if you buy a new version of Windows and five years later another version is released, you will still have two years of support left for the previous version.


And yet they also state...
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Windows 8 mainstream support ends 9 January 2018


Methinks they're telling porkies!
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PostPosted: 15:50 - 10 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Running 7 which they run extended support for till 2020.
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PostPosted: 18:33 - 10 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Windows 10 is supposed to be the last windows ever, so what are they going to do in 2020 when mainstream support ends?

Make it open source aka "Open Windows"? Wink Just kidding Laughing
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PostPosted: 20:03 - 10 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Im-a-Ridah wrote:

Make it open source aka "Open Windows"


we can dream.....

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PostPosted: 08:58 - 11 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Windows 8.1 is not great either. My wife's got it on her laptop and I really don't like all these tile sh|te.

On my desktop PC I had Windows 7 for quite a while but then accepted free upgrade to Windows 10 and I've never looked back since. I think Windows 10 is really good.
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PostPosted: 09:00 - 11 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
10 has been a bit unstable for me where 7 was rock steady. I don't mind its layout though.

Hate 8.
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PostPosted: 09:44 - 11 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Im-a-Ridah wrote:
Windows 10 is supposed to be the last windows ever, so what are they going to do in 2020 when mainstream support ends?

Move to an always-updating subscription model.

License it for a year or so, then start the nags and gradual downgrading. Nice data you've got here, it'd be a shame if anything... happened... to it. Ransomware.
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PostPosted: 12:57 - 11 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
arry wrote:
10 has been a bit unstable for me where 7 was rock steady. I don't mind its layout though.

Hate 8.


8.1 + Classic Shell is quite tolerable as long as all your legacy programs or games work OK with it.

If Windows subscription is the future then Microsoft can fuck right off.
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PostPosted: 13:51 - 11 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Win 8.1 with Classic Shell was perfect. I never had an issue, worked a treat and I never saw the shitty tiles screen.

In other news, designers / developers rejoice, Internet Explorer 8,9 & 10 are officially at the end of life cycle too. No more patches for them and constant nag messages to upgrade.

Realistically, they will be around for years more to come but it's a start Thumbs Up

Asking for IE6 compatibility now, is like asking if you can put racing tyres on your horse's cart.
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