Microsoft is reminding Windows 7 users that support for Windows 7 RTM ends on April 9, 2013, so its time to install the service pack. Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released almost two years ago now, and Microsoft policy is to end support for a Windows product 24 months after the release of a new service pack. So in other words, if you are running Windows 7 RTM (with no service pack), ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by SomeBozo:+1!
I would love to see an article saying "Customer's purchases for windows will stop at Win 7".
Originally posted by KillerBug:I think that is about all you can say about Win8 (it is a disaster), look at the number of companies that have spoken out saying Win8 sucks and they will not adopt it. I completely agree, but on the other side, it is something M$ must do in order to remain relevant. PCs I think are going away for the mass market as a whole, being replace with smart phones and/or other mobile devices. Unless your like me a developer who prefers to work on a PC with dual screens that is as fast as you can get, the PC is pretty much at it's end. Win8 is kind of okay on tables and mobile devices, but the interaction still leaves you wanting something that works better and is rather clumsy. I just think M$ is being cheap and lazy by making one OS for both PC's and mobile devices...
Windows 8 is a disaster, and about the only nice things people say about it are that it works well with tablets
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