A good analysis of the promise that GWX10 nagware attacks will end end of June. The autzhor doubts it, for more insightful arguments than I do - but me doubts it as well.
https://www.petri.com/will-microsoft...-upgrade-offer
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My theory is that the end of the promotion is a ceremonial gesture aimed at its PC maker partners. These firms were stung by the free upgrade because it gave users a reason to skip a new PC purchase during a time in which the PC industry was already hurting. And consumers responded in droves, sort of, by not buying new PCs. We’re now in what we hope is the tail end of the worst downturn in PC history.
The thing is, forcing customers to pay for the Windows 10 upgrade doesn’t really change anything. One must think that the vast majority of people out there who were going to upgrade a working Windows 7/8.1 PC to the uncertainty of Windows 10 have already done so. Which is what makes this whole thing so strange. If Microsoft cared about customers, it would have ended the notifications by now. And if it cared about PC makers, it would never have taken this unprecedented step to harm their sales in the first place.
Ultimately, we need to view the software giant’s strategy through the lens of its Windows 10 pledge. If Microsoft can hit 1 billion active Windows 10 devices within 2-3 years, it will have succeeded. So the Windows 10 Upgrade Offer will stick around as long as it is helping Microsoft achieve that goal, and not a day longer.
That day, currently, is scheduled for July 29. And yet I still wonder if that holds.
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Anyhoiw, I could not care less for all this - if there would not be the problem of that Microsoft has successfully formed alliance with hardware producers that certain CPUs that are of "modern performance" and thus are especially attractive for gamers, will be blocked via arhcitecture and software measurements from either unning lower versions of Windows, or not allowing older versions of W7 to access Windows Updates. If things are going very badly - and with Microsoft's anti-customer agenda you should never say never - it could happen that you buy yourself a new system with good gamer components, want to install W7 on it to use the latest hardware for your games - and findmout that you cannot and must use W10 instead. The point is - this is not about incompatability between OS and hardare, but it is an additonally added, intentional blockade.
If I were not already pissed completely, when i read the above I would have gotten pissed at the latest.
Possible I end up buying intentionally older generaitons of hardware as a new system, capable to launch games and sims via W7. If that makes sense!
It is fascinating what idiotic scenarios their queer policies make me to consider as realistic alternatives.