Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 6, 2014 Hash Fellow Posted September 6, 2014 Microsoft To Abandon Windows 7 Mainstream Support. Pressure Builds On Windows 9 Mainstream Support Vs. Extended Support On 13 January 2015 Windows 7’s ‘Mainstream Support’ will come to an end. That means no new Service Packs or features will be released. This is wholly different from the end of ‘Extended Support’ which is what happened to Windows XP on 8 April 2014. Extended Support is the big one: no more security patches when hackers find holes, no performance improvements, nothing – the OS is effectively dead. Windows 7 Extended Support will not end until 14 January 2020. For comparison Windows XP Mainstream Support ended back on 8 April 2009. Quote
*A:M User* Roger Posted September 7, 2014 *A:M User* Posted September 7, 2014 Yeah...I don't see the enterprise migrating to Windows 9 anytime soon. We just got standardized on Win 7 at my firm. I hope to be retired by the time I have to learn another Freaking version of Windows. Quote
Fuchur Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 Windows 9 does not seem to be too troublesome... it is close to Windows 7 since Windows 8 was not accepted very well and Microsoft had to go back to were it started. And Windows 8 was mostly a media flop, not a real useability problem. Quote
pixelplucker Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 Uh Oh, I like w7, skeptical about 9 till it comes out. Not a fan of 8 with it's lousy usb support. Puts devices to sleep even on a desktop and only way to get around that is to edit the device in the registry... Really how much energy will be saved in the world by disconnecting a device that has rechargeable batteries? Why make a desktop look like a smart phone? If I wanted to work on a smart phone I would @#$%!!! buy one... leave my desktop alone! Quote
Fuchur Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 Do not know about the usb thingy... hopefully it will be setable. anyway in win9 you can customize the tiles screen or just use the start menu which looks alot like the one we got in w7 but with tiles on the right which can be edited in different ways. now it is more like customizeable favourites/shortcuts which is okay with me. in the end there will be cool things and stuff we will have to get acustomed too again as always. win 7 had stuff like that winxp had stuff like that but win9 looks much more promising than win8.i do not own win8 (tried it at friends computers but that is not the same as using it). arent there any kind of energ saving profiles in the system settings which can handle that problem? Quote
pixelplucker Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 I have W8 on another system, really regret how it handles hardware on a desktop. It's ok on a laptop with touch screens if you like navigating with your elbow. W8 does boot up quick but other than that they nanny hide many of the system tools. I have it boot to the normal desktop view not the icon screen which has to be the worst thing out. My work machine still runs W7 pro and been on the same install since I first put it in which is hard to believe after all the trial and beta's I put it through (thank god for CC Cleaner). Will see when 9 is out, skeptical here but certainly won't put it on my work system. Quote
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