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This is clearly a dejavu comment.

This continued problem with MS updates, after several years, just encourages Windows-7 users to remain with Windows-7.  For those of us with minimal needs and requirements, and practice safe Internet surfing, Windows-7 is working just fine.  Why MS chose to burden Windows-10 with needless complexity in its “base” OS is an unanswered question.

I’ll stick with a real key to unlock and lock my car, along with home home!

This blind allegiance to wireless high tech is going to come back and bite you in the butt.  It is only a matter of time when the critical mass is reached on all these wireless gizmos for hackers to take interest in them, if not already.  Cars; home appliances, entry, thermostats; etc. just waiting to be controlled and run amok.

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Nathan Parker

Regrettably, DELL’s Tech Support area admits that the Support Assist is buggy, especially in the download Updates/Bios area.  This after I ran into several problems over the past two years.  Yet, DELL just doesn’t seem to want to fix it.  It is Windows-10 oriented; yet, it does not give any error message if one is using it for a Windows-7 Pro system.  DELL’s Tech Support area suggested I use DELL’s Command and Update utility instead.

Maybe, but probably very doubtful, this could be a true Windows-7 successor.  Clearly, Microsoft has failed in its “one size fits all” attempt with Windows-10.

Missing from MS’s current lineup of Operating Systems is one that is more robust that the ChromeBook OS; but does not have all the bells, whistles, smoke and mirrors, bloat, folderol, etc., etc., that is included in Windows-10.  Think of all the home and small to medium office users who just need to run a few applications (either proprietary or possibly from MS, Intuit, etc.), have Internet access for email and searching, and have no need or desire for the unwanted complexity and resulting instability of synching, cloud computing, touch screens, gaming, mobile device-centric UI, and who knows what else.  They have been ignored (very likely why Windows-7 remains so popular and stable).

What was wrong with the former meaningful labels of “Home, Professional, Enterprise” that worked so well in Windows-7 and earlier versions?  Then, if one “wanted more, you paid more.”

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Kranium, Cybertooth, doriel

This, effectively, negates whatever protections that formerly existed under HIPAA.

All the ballyhoo about “security in the cloud” is just so much transitory water vapor in the sky–hardly secure or permanent.

What is wrong with an OS being boring, most especially in business or serious consumer settings?  The OS is supposed to let you invoke and use applications along with their related hardware requirements, i.e., mice, keyboards, printers.  OS reliability and stability trump any type of flashy graphics, sizzle, and needless complexity.

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PerthMike

Looking forward to purchasing my extended Windows-7 support when it becomes available.  WIndows-10 is still way too unstable for routine tasks that Windows-7 remains unexcelled.

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rontpxz81, PerthMike

Your analysis about UIs is so correct.  The Windows-10 UI mess is due to enabled millennials being allowed to run amok without the wisdom of those over the age of 35.  So, as one can see, they pandered to the gaming and mobile users at the expense of all other users.  Due to their young age, they never learned the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” adage.  Or, if they heard of it, they chose to ignore it.  (They have to justify their jobs at MS.)

Most regrettable is the amount of work that users need to do to get a usable and workable UI out of Windows-10 oriented to keyboards and desktops/laptops.

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rexr, wavy

Would I be willing to pay $50 for an extra year of Windows-7 updates?  H*** Yes!

Until WIndows-10 get serious about becoming and remaining a stable OS, there is no compelling need to switch.  The much-vaunted security enhancement is just that–hot air.  The needless complexity of Windows-10 was brought on by MS’s decision to pander to the gaming, mobile, synching users at the expense of all those users who just need a simple reliable OS.  (Think of all those personal and small business users who just want to network a few PCs together at a single office location and backup in-house.  Obviously, ignored.)

This continuing mess should come as no surprise.  The initial problem began when MS got way too big for its britches and bit off too much with Windows-10 supposedly going to be the one-size-fits-all Operating System.  Big Fail.  The concept of one-size-fits-all has never work and never will work.  The concept of modular design seems to have been ignored, in that whether or not a user wants all the fluff and folderol in Windows-10, they are stuck with it.  Two of many illustrations:  If a user doesn’t do gaming, synching, touch screens, etc., etc., why must they install all that needless complexity and code?  Now, with the lack of modularity, when anything “breaks,” regardless of where in some piece of seldom-used code, the whole OS is now “broken.”

MS had best rethink their stated “drop dead date” for WIndows-7 in January 2020.  Enterprise editions has already been given an extension.  When are Pro editions going to be given an extension?  How can MS reasonably expect business and serious consumer users of a reliable, albeit old OS, switch to an unreliable/unstable OS?  As for the much-vaunted “security enhancements” of Windows-10…very debatable at the very least.

 

That is such a sad, but oh so true, commentary on Windows-10.  Having to also maintain a separate PC to fix Windows-10 problems is so ridiculous.  The reasons to keep Windows-7 just keep coming and coming- with MS seemingly not caring at all.

Maybe I’m missing something, but…why would any Windows-10 user want to install updates “now” instead of later.  Most especially given Windows-10’s wretched history of updates breaking functionality that used to work.   Who knows what MS was thinking when they removed that very useful choice from 1903.  Hardly what one would consider a step in the right direction.

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Charlie

Why does this “clumsiness” continue?  Its been several years since Windows-10 debuted, and some of its initial problems continue unabated.  How can MS realistically continue to call Windows-10 a worthy successor to Windows-7?

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Charlie

The reasons to stick with Windows-7 just keep coming and coming.  At a certain level, there is a certain feeling of being sorry for those people to jumped to WIndows-10, in anticipation of a much better OS.  Yes, it does have a few enhancements over Windows-7.  Its continuing unreliability is inexcusable and totally unnecessary.  Microsoft trying to prove the adage of “one size fits all” is not working out.

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Charlie

How about the “no password” option in Windows-10; similar the option in WIndows-7?

There ARE a lot of PCs having only one user at one location.  One example: a single person’s laptop or desktop PC used only in their home.  Clearly, no need to have a password to login.  Not everyone is lost in the rapture of mobility or the use of mobile devices.

If this is a “missing” feature in WIndows-10–still one of many reasons to remain with Windows-7.

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