So, yeah it's finally happening.
Microsoft is killing support for Windows 7, as we all know. Jan 14.
On the work front, we are undergoing a company-wide update to windows 10 on all systems. If the machine dies, it dies. It will be replaced.
However, on the gaming and personal computing front, I'm not seeing a whole lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth. I thought there'd be more, and personally, I'm quite torn on whether I am going to take the leap or not, and how. It's a free upgrade, for now.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
I have 2 windows 7 gaming systems: My big rig, which has recently underwent a full W7 reformat, and is running better than ever. Strictly games. I also have an Alienware laptop hooked up to my television, which basically serves as stereo/streaming/gaming unit. I just upgraded to a 1TB SSD on that, full win7 reformat.
I've always said "they'll pry win7 from my cold, dead hands" (the same thing I said about XP )
There's a lot of games that are not Win10 friendly. Part of me is thinking of getting a couple more SSDs, cloning, then upgrading to Win10 on the clones, then booting as I see fit. Want to play a win7 game? Boot to the 7 drive. Going to hit the internet? Boot to Win10.
7 will be vulnerable, very soon. Our IT Support that help me out at work, of course, are putting the fear in everybody concerning this.
Thoughts?
Microsoft is killing support for Windows 7, as we all know. Jan 14.
On the work front, we are undergoing a company-wide update to windows 10 on all systems. If the machine dies, it dies. It will be replaced.
However, on the gaming and personal computing front, I'm not seeing a whole lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth. I thought there'd be more, and personally, I'm quite torn on whether I am going to take the leap or not, and how. It's a free upgrade, for now.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
I have 2 windows 7 gaming systems: My big rig, which has recently underwent a full W7 reformat, and is running better than ever. Strictly games. I also have an Alienware laptop hooked up to my television, which basically serves as stereo/streaming/gaming unit. I just upgraded to a 1TB SSD on that, full win7 reformat.
I've always said "they'll pry win7 from my cold, dead hands" (the same thing I said about XP )
There's a lot of games that are not Win10 friendly. Part of me is thinking of getting a couple more SSDs, cloning, then upgrading to Win10 on the clones, then booting as I see fit. Want to play a win7 game? Boot to the 7 drive. Going to hit the internet? Boot to Win10.
7 will be vulnerable, very soon. Our IT Support that help me out at work, of course, are putting the fear in everybody concerning this.
Thoughts?