Microsoft wants Windows 7 to die a quick death
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Yxskaft
If Microsoft doesn't want Windows 7 to become the next XP, then they should hurry up and let users have a built-in option to choose between the classic and modern UI
Windows 7 may be supported for many years still, but it has already gotten shafted in terms of not getting DirectX 11.1/11.2
The Goose
if win 8 offered a huge improvement over win7 and it was cheaper or i could trade up then i`d think about it
HeavyHemi
Probably not since Mantle only runs on AMD GPU's. Think PhysX for an allegory.
Extraordinary
I think that is plenty for 7, its already a solid OS, and if it's going to continue to be improved until 2015, I'd say critical patches until 2020 is fine
I know I won't be using 7 anywhere close to 2015 onwards, I don't even have it installed on any machines any more (Which is the opposite of what I was saying when 8 RTM'd)
deltatux
That is indeed for Windows 7.
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Undying
I don't plan to stop using W7 for quite a while. I'm used to it and i love it...
Why change something that works so great.
warlord
"and the weak shall perish" 🙂 :wanker:
that goes to windows 7 😛uke2:
windows 8.1 FTW!!!!!! :banana:
---TK---
windows 7 user here for the time being
RavenMaster
I'll see what Windows 9 has to offer before I switch from Windows 7. Windows 8 is just godawful ugly and has an unnecessary Metro screen which I have to constantly skip back and forth to from Desktop mode.
Get your Phone OS out of my desktop Microshaft! >.<
Icanium
windows 7 here. I'll wait for the guru's to start praising an OS before I consider making a change.
PhazeDelta1
Maybe you should go read through the Windows 8 and 8.1 threads. There are a lot of us who are happy with it.
Speed Weed
Still have a couple of those W8 'upgrade' discs lying unopened in a drawer somewhere.
Just like Windows 7 too much to consider making any sort of move just yet.
Anyway, I use a live Linux cd for online banking purposes, and have long lost my sense of 'adventure' by leaving dodgy websites alone.
Icanium
I should have said worth upgrading instead of praising.
deltatux
It is worth upgrading, it's just the dissenters are a lot louder than those who are perfectly fine with it. I've been perfectly fine with Windows 8 after a month of actually using it. At first I had issues with it but then I just adapted, just like every other OS I've used be it Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Android, iOS, Symbian, BB OS, BB10 or what not.
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yelsewshane
Long as most game developers make games for windows I will just use the latest bs version only to play games. For everything else I do I use Debian so Microsoft can kiss my ass.
Year
http://i.imgur.com/7HtuLDc.png
Blackops_2
I don't mind the people that are happy with W8, but why should i have to pay a 140$ for an operating system i don't need or want, just because M$ wants money? Trying to force people to upgrade is ridiculous. W7 is perfectly applicable for everything i do, and honestly i have no use for a "touch" based interface. Sure it has the regular desktop but my point is it provides me nothing of interest W7 can't offer.
TurboMan
Over my dead hardware !!! I will not give up Win 7 easy, I promise you MS !!!
:vader:
Pill Monster
Haha that'd be a first. Too late M$, Win7 already is the next XP.....
Solfaur
Unless they come up with a Windows 9 or whatever that will bring improvements especially for gaming I won't bother. So far I can live without the latest marketing DX version Windows 8 exclusive....
