{"id":332508,"date":"2019-12-12T08:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T06:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=332508"},"modified":"2019-12-12T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:00:21","slug":"windows-7-to-show-full-screen-upgrade-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/332508-windows-7-to-show-full-screen-upgrade-notifications.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 to show full-screen upgrade notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will begin showing Windows 7 users a full-screen upgrade notification encouraging them to switch to Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting on January 15, 2020, a full-screen notification will appear that describes the risk of continuing to use Windows 7 Service Pack 1 after it reaches end of support on January 14, 2020,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4530734\/windows-7-update-kb4530734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>said Microsoft.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said that the notification will remain on users&#8217; screens until they interact with it.<\/p>\n<p>Users will then be able to dismiss the notification, and when doing so, they will be given options to see the notification later or never see it again.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 operating systems which will display this notification include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starter<\/li>\n<li>Home Basic<\/li>\n<li>Home Premium<\/li>\n<li>Professional (Excluding those who have purchased the Extended Security Update)<\/li>\n<li>Ultimate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Microsoft also explained that the notification will not appear on domain-joined machines or machines in kiosk mode.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Windows 7 to lose support<\/h3>\n<p>Microsoft is trying to encourage Windows 7 users to switch to the modern Windows 10 platform before the former loses official support.<\/p>\n<p>However, after months of decreased market share, Windows 7 appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/330977-windows-10-is-losing-ground.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>stabilising<\/strong><\/a>, with around 26.86% of all desktop operating systems still using this old software.<\/p>\n<p>The official free upgrade period which allowed users to upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 has expired, but it is still possible to do this by using a <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/330971-you-can-still-upgrade-to-windows-10-for-free.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>system clock exploit<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/332488-whatsapp-drops-support-for-older-phones.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">WhatsApp drops support for older phones<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will begin showing Windows 7 users a full-screen upgrade notification encouraging them to switch to Windows 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":110808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,26970,5214],"class_list":["post-332508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332520,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332508\/revisions\/332520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}