Win 7 officially hit end of life sometime in back in January. It's a complex thing, but from what i understand it's now in the extended support phase ? Not really sure what the ramifications are but i did notice a couple of changes. It seems like it's a problem to buy win 7 retail versions. The most noticeable thing was that Microsoft closed down the win 7 download link they had available through Digital River.
It was pretty nice when it was there. All you had to do was download an ISO of whichever win 7 version you wanted and burn it to an installation disc -or- thumb drive. Next ... install it onto a machine that had been wiped then update. After you were sure that it installed correctly and was running right you entered the product key and authenticated it. ~ All done ... piece of cake ! ~
It seems that now you must first enter a product key then download an ISO right from Microsoft. Haven't tried that to see how well that works yet.
I can see why Microsoft keeps trying to re-invent itself to keep their product fresh and new but it's getting silly. Reminds me of how Miley Cyrus took a wrecking ball to her career just to stay in the public eye lest some other pretty young face emerge to take her place.
Microsoft already understands the predicament they've gotten themselves into so the scuttlebut is that they're looking to change over to a subscription service where you use their OS and pay for it on a yearly basis. It's worked well for a lot of other software companies.
Really don't have an opinion on win 10 except that they skipped win 9 altogether. Sounds like they're trying to keep up with Mac version 10 ?
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