Microsoft should number their Windows releases by when support will end for them (eg Windows 25). That’ll make it super clear to enterprise that they’ve got to get with it and update, rather than obfuscating and delaying these dates. (Being half serious)
Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
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Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
#42Good thing I'm using Windows 7 Pro. Cheers
Sadly, support is starting to slip in major applications. For example you can't install Python 3.9 on Windows 7.
I run into this a bit - it can be a problem or not depending. I use a Linux laptop for development, and even have a Windows XP virtualbox for a workflow program that I can't get to run on newer Windows OSs - it's needed for legacy apps.
Using Windows 7 on a PC I can only use a version 3 series version of GnuCash, not the latest version 4 release, which is available to Windows 10, but my Linux distro (OpenSuse) only has the version 3 series of GnuCash. So I can gpg the GnuCash xml file and share the accounting file across my machines using github.
Cheers
Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
#43Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last Windows version ever? As in it was going to be evergreen? Did I imagine that? Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
My personal theory is that Microsoft probably thought Apple would stay on 10 forever, but with M1 macOS moved to 11. 11 > 10...
Because I have a very low opinion of most marketing people that seems plausible to me, but Mac and Windows seem to have such wildly different markets that I think it is unlikely.
Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
#44Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last Windows version ever? As in it was going to be evergreen? Did I imagine that? Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
My personal theory is that Microsoft probably thought Apple would stay on 10 forever, but with M1 macOS moved to 11. 11 > 10...
“Windows Infinity” done.
Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does the file chooser show thumbnails yet?
Yep, shows thumbnails for pictures, videos, pdfs etc. More formats than Windows in fact. Windows has been standing still, the rest of the world hasn't. EDIT: I used "Files", not the file picker.
Thumbnail preview is a _massive_ attack surface. All those RCEs in JPEGs, MP4s, PDFs etc are now potentially immediately executed upon displaying the file. No thanks.
Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sadly, support is starting to slip in major applications. For example you can't install Python 3.9 on Windows 7.
I think he was joking. Windows 7 is EOL
I wanted to keep my riced Windows 7 installation until software incompatibility forced me off of it.
I really believe that, UX-wise, Windows 7 was the high point.
Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
#47Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last Windows version ever? As in it was going to be evergreen? Did I imagine that? Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
My personal theory is that Microsoft probably thought Apple would stay on 10 forever, but with M1 macOS moved to 11. 11 > 10...
I thought the only reason they went from 8 to 10 was because "Windows 9" might be a match for application regexs trying to match Windows 9x.
Edit: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-calle...
Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
#48I'll be honest. I kinda lost track of windows, android, iOS versions at some point. And I think that's probably ok... I use it, it works, there ya go. Most everything I do really isn't OS dependent. I do fondly remember the days when OS upgrades was a huge change. I'll always fondly think of the Rolling Stone's "Start Me Up" and trying out OS/2 and various Linux flavors and so on. I used to spend HOURS customizing my…
I fully agree. Everything is version agnostic now, and my apps are cross platform.
Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
#49Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last Windows version ever? As in it was going to be evergreen? Did I imagine that? Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
My personal theory is that Microsoft probably thought Apple would stay on 10 forever, but with M1 macOS moved to 11. 11 > 10...
On a positive note at least everyone has got over this allergy to incrementing versions. Hopefully they’ll get over the allergy of anything but rolling releases next so we can have some stability and lifecycle control back again.
Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
#50Good thing I'm using Windows 7 Pro. Cheers
Sadly, support is starting to slip in major applications. For example you can't install Python 3.9 on Windows 7.
Is there really a hard incompatibility or are the official binaries just not compiled with Windows 7 as a target?
On the Mac side, the official Python 3.9 binaries only support Mavericks and above, but MacPorts has builds for Tiger, which predates Windows Vista.
Edit: And for kicks I even just pulled out my Tiger VM to confirm. `python39` builds and runs fine.