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Support for Windows 7 has ended

by newsreview1 on 1/15/20, 11:36 PM with 7 comments

• by woodandsteel on 1/16/20, 3:03 AM

  I am in the midst of switching over to Windows 10, after many happy years on 7. I was very reluctant to switch because of all the things I read about how Windows had tried to put a desktop gui together with a tablet and phone one. But it turns out that Windows 10 is pretty much like 7.

  There is one huge difference, that's accounts. In 7 you get in with a password, but in 10 you can also use a pin. Also 7 has two types of account, administrator and standard. In 10 there are two more variables, Microsoft account vs local, and family vs other user, with a different procedure for creating each.

  Also there is cortana, but I haven't use it except for the initial setting up.

  Let me add that I have found David Pogue's Windows 10 The Missing Manual very helpful.

• by ratsmack on 1/15/20, 11:50 PM

  I find it odd that on the blue screen notification they stated that they "Strongly Recommend" you to upgrade to Windows 10 on a "New PC".

• by icedchai on 1/15/20, 11:37 PM

  And I know companies still using XP...

• by RyokiYazawa on 1/15/20, 11:38 PM

  oh no...