Users abandon Windows 7 as 2020 time bomb nears

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Users abandon Windows 7 as 2020 time bomb nears

Windows 7 users are beginning to abandon their ageing software and finally upgrade their devices to Windows 10 in greater numbers.

According to data from NetMarketShare, the number of users still running Windows 7 worldwide has decreased dramatically over the last month.

 

[Fjorko]

Thanks for that useless bit of information.

 

[Zoomzoom]

I'm going to cling like film to my win 7 until I can't anymore. Win10 blows bigtime.

 

[supersunbird]

I'm going to cling like film to my win 7 until I can't anymore. Win10 blows bigtime.

It did indeed, not so much anymore.

So has your prepaid line Telkom landline been cut off yet?

 

[lowriderza]

And in next to no time people will start complaining even more about how RAM hungry Windows 10 is and how much data it uses to download its updates. I wonder how many people are still using the free upgrade option which is still available to many if you know how.

 

[swordfish1]

“Going forward, the best way for you to stay secure is on Windows 10 Linux.”

 

[lowriderza]

Anyone got a link to the reminder of how to do it?

I can explain my method. Granted it doesn't work in all scenarios, but it works for my needs.

Take a system with a legal copy of Windows 7 SP1 installed and activated. Some of the oem installs like those on laptops won't work. You know the drill with some Product Keys....

Step Two is probably the most important, disconnect the system from the Internet.

Step Three would be to start the upgrade from within Windows 7. And to continue the upgrade as per the normal route skipping the key etc.

Step Four would need to take place after you're back in your Windows 10 environment and logged in. Only at this stage may you restore Internet Connectivity. If you've gotten this far it should activate.

I'll try it with Windows 8 just now and post the results here.

Edit: Sorry about the grammar between my SwiftKey keyboard and it being a lazy Saturday I'm bound to slip up.

 

[supersunbird]

And in next to no time people will start complaining even more about how RAM hungry Windows 10 is and how much data it uses to download its updates. I wonder how many people are still using the free upgrade option which is still available to many if you know how.

Doesn't seem RAM hungry to me, seems to work even slightly better on 4GB systems than Win7.

 

[lowriderza]

Doesn't seem RAM hungry to me, seems to work even slightly better on 4GB systems than Win7.

With the latest updates and release it slowed down the systems I work on a little bit. 8gb of RAM seems to be the new norm. I have to qualify that by stating that I specialize in End User support but specifically in Business Environments where they need the speed to stay productive. But sure I agree it's not bad with 4gb of RAM.

 

[biometrics]

I'm going to cling like film to my win 7 until I can't anymore. Win10 blows bigtime.

Get Start10 then it looks and works like 7.

 

[gregmcc]

Moved to Mint a few months ago. Had to reboot back into Win10 the other day. omg, 20 mins just to boot in, then it wanted to apply a shedload of updates. Got the software working on Wine, now the only reason I keep Win10 is for BF4 which gets fired up every now and again.

 

[biometrics]

Moved to Mint a few months ago. Had to reboot back into Win10 the other day. omg, 20 mins just to boot in, then it wanted to apply a shedload of updates. Got the software working on Wine, now the only reason I keep Win10 is for BF4 which gets fired up every now and again.

My new Win 10 boots in seconds.

 

[Zoomzoom]

Get Start10 then it looks and works like 7.

it does not. the massive updates you can't switch off are the issue.

 

[Zoomzoom]

So has your prepaid line Telkom landline been cut off yet?

if you don't know what you are talking about you should rather be silent. Better to look like a fool than open your mouth and prove you are a fool.

 

[biometrics]

it does not. the massive updates you can't switch off are the issue.

I don’t seem to have that problem.

 

[Polymathic]

I recently used Windows 7 laptop, can't remember whose. I was surprised on how archaic it felt.

 

[supersunbird]

if you don't know what you are talking about you should rather be silent. Better to look like a fool than open your mouth and prove you are a fool.

Lol, we are fools spotting each other then? At least you're not a snowflake, I'll give you that.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Big Microsoft promotion ...

 

[AlphaJohn]

I can explain my method. Granted it doesn't work in all scenarios, but it works for my needs.

Take a system with a legal copy of Windows 7 SP1 installed and activated. Some of the oem installs like those on laptops won't work. You know the drill with some Product Keys....

Step Two is probably the most important, disconnect the system from the Internet.

Step Three would be to start the upgrade from within Windows 7. And to continue the upgrade as per the normal route skipping the key etc.

Step Four would need to take place after you're back in your Windows 10 environment and logged in. Only at this stage may you restore Internet Connectivity. If you've gotten this far it should activate.

I'll try it with Windows 8 just now and post the results here.

Edit: Sorry about the grammar between my SwiftKey keyboard and it being a lazy Saturday I'm bound to slip up.

Why go through all that. If it's legal and not used to upgrade to 10 you can just download windows 10 and install with 7, 8 or even 8.1 key. You can even just run the setup.exe from within a legal copy.

 

[quovadis]

it does not. the massive updates you can't switch off are the issue.

The updates with the latest version of Windows 10 aren't nearly as ridiculous as in the past and there are plenty of ways to pause/defer built into Windows or other means all over the net to stop them - I'm not quite sure why you'd risk that. Also, it seems loads of people tend to confuse new Windows 10 Builds with the general updates.