Windows 7 has expired--Microsoft has finally sent it off on a burning funeral pyre, floating off into the sunset, drifting on the ocean currents, a smokey trail in the sky its only remaining trace. Well, at least Larian isn't trying to support WinXP--hope not, anyway...;) It's very difficult for me to see what people get out of running an OS no longer supported by the parent company--past its EoL date. Like spoiled milk...;) I enjoyed Win7 a lot in those long-ago days--but I have to state my opinion: next to Win10x64 it is crude and rude, indeed.
And the thing is for almost two *years,* if not longer, Microsoft *gave Win10 licenses away free* to all takers in most countries globally. My wife and I took 'em up on it and traded in our retail licenses of Vistax64 and Win7 for two separate retail Windows10x64 licenses that a) cost us nothing, and b) will never expire, as Microsoft has pledged to honor retail licenses for the *life* of the licensee (me!)--so the Win10 licenses follow us--not our motherboards. I've already migrated her through two motherboard swaps and myself through three motherboard swaps--and the *retail license* activation follows me in perpetuity. OEM Win10 licensing doesn't, however--it dies with the motherboard it is licensed to.
I'm not going to talk about how technically superior win10x64 is to Win7x64--it's not really a contest as Win7 is far behind--nor will I talk about how lots of Win7 code and its drivers do not support the latest in CPU and GPU developments--but that's what you would would expect from an OS already burned through its EoL dates!
I can't advise anyone at this time to hold on to Win7. There's simply no future in it. And to think of the people who could have had retail licenses to Win10x64 in perpetuity for as long as they shall live--and who thought their old, dying OS was a "better deal." Deals like the one Microsoft gave out with Win10x64 are few and far between. Indeed, I don't know of any other OS license that matches it. Best OS deal I've had in 35 years, without a doubt!
Last edited by Waltc; 30/10/20 11:03 PM.
