Uprading from windows 10 to windows 11

[Surf Cat]

Windows died at the end of Windows 7.

 

[J Grant]

Windows died at the end of Windows 7.

The eyes are the windows to the computer's soul....

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Yes, 7 was a very good program. I have a laptop that still runs 7 Professional. Works fine. 15 plus years old and I use it to run a photo, negative and slide scanner I own. Slow but has been very reliable.

 

[Zoe]

I upgraded on laptop. It went fine. My new computer came with 11. I don't use it as much as my windows 10 desktop. My desktop was custom built for what I wanted but it is not capable of the upgrade to windows 11. I just keep it backed up. It is old.

The update went fine on the laptop. I have heard of some people having problems when they updated. You sure want everything backed up before you do it if you do it.

 

[Zoe]

another thought too. My windows 10 is set to auto update but it don't always do it like it should. It will say updated last night at such and such time and I will manually do windows update and it will start updating new things. You definitely want it all updated if you do it.

I have had microsoft tech on phone before that got me to just keep manually hitting windows update option and reboot and do it again. It would find something new after the reboot and manually doing windows update. I think I had to reinstall the windows 10 operating system for some reason.

Many times it will be a security update that it has failed to do when it says it is updated. It updates fine still.

Every so often I just do the manual windows update option even though it is set for auto updates.

 

[cpursley]

Windows died at the end of Windows 7.

Interesting take, I'm a unix/linux/mac guy but Windows 11 is legit good now and MS products in general. The surfacebook is fantastic.

 

[J Grant]

Could we, the consumer, start a class action suit? When we bought our Windows 10 computers, the lastest and greatest until omg - now- did the purchase include a disclaimer that within X years Microsoft would stop supporting and updating their OWN freaking software, making our computer obsolete, unless one upgrades to 11- and who knows what that will do to our system or how long that will last before we get a message they are no longer supporting any windows 11 upgrade?

It is clearly a ploy by MS to sell new computers when the ones we have work well for our purposes -

 

[Mark K]

It is clearly a ploy by MS to sell new computers when the ones we have work well for our purposes -

Did you just get hit in the head and come to this realization? This has been going on forever, not just with software companies. I can't go into a Chevy dealer and buy parts for a '57 Chevy. Sure, its nearly 60 yrs old but a 15 yr old operating system is akin to a Model T in the computer world. But Model T's still run.

Don't worry about their 'support'. Back up your computer religiously to an external hard drive and run it till it breaks. My home puter is Win10, my primary office PC is Win7, and my backup is WinXP. They all work fine. Nobody is holding a gun to your head, although MS would love for you to believe that the world will fall apart is you don't upgrade to the "latest and greatest". Just wait, soon all MS products will be cloud based, subscription models. Please sign up and keep the cash rolling in to MS; I own some of their stock.

 

[J Grant]

I realized the planned obsolescence a long time ago, so I am just posting this latest example of it. I have one drive as a backup and can probably not update and be fine, but if my tech guy advises to update to Windows 11, I will probably go for that option.

 

[ucbruin]

Planned obsolescence is what human appraisers are experiencing....