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Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by mirker »

ajdoingnothing wrote: post #56

I'm staying away from Windows as much as I can. The Windows 10 home edition is so bloated with nonsense applications (of which some can't be removed directly). Also, it is odd that there are still some icons and popups that have this old Vista (and sometimes even 98) style. So incredibly messy. The entire thing feels like an American commercial during the super bowl. Bleh. I truly believe that my hardware running a L…

A family member had a slow windows install. I checked the system utilization, suspecting paging. Guess what: 3/4 GB of the laptop were used by windows, leaving 1GB for all other applications. Apparently, deprecation via automatic updates is in, and it comes with candy crush.

I installed Ubuntu 10 minutes later.

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by everyone »

@Everyone 'Windows 10 LTSB' is the secret good user-focused version of Windows 10.

It doesnt come with any shit on it (windows store, metro, xboxlive, cortana etc etc.) MS have also promised It will not receive any updates that change its functionality but will receive security updates, for 10 years. You can only get it if u buy in bulk tho. Or, u can just get it from tpb.. Considering MS are intentionally not selling by far the most user-respecting version of their OS to regular folks, it behooves us to pirate it.

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

Honestly, HN may want to just consider banning any site that runs this news article from being posted on HN, because this claim is basically proof they did not do even cursory research before posting.

Here's the 2015 story covering this date announcement, which bears no relation to recent rumors at all: https://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/20/microsoft-to-support-windo...

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by olivierestsage »

kalleboo wrote: post #10

Why does it just feel like Microsoft is copying Apple? When Microsoft launched Windows 10 it seemed like MacOS was going to stay at 10 forever. Now that macOS has moved on to 11, but is commonly only known by named releases, Microsoft is going to do the same... I'm looking forward to the next Windows being named after natural features of Washington state

You could say the same thing in reverse with the Surface Pro preceding the iPad Pro with its keyboard and stylus, though.

Disclaimer: not a Microsoft fanboy, just intensely skeptical of both of these corporations in general.

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by Nav_Panel »

Jedd wrote: post #68

It's an interesting experiment to ask the average Microsoft Windows user to identify - let's say 5 things - in their current workflows, that they couldn't do in Microsoft Windows XP (or 7, etc - pick the subject's age-appropriate release). Similarly for versions of Microsoft Office products.

Literally nothing, IME... XP would be great to have back. (then again, I mostly run Ubuntu for work, so not exactly an "average" Windows user...)

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by ChrisSD »

eric-hu wrote: post #26
dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #7

It'll probably just be "Windows" and will continue to be updated every 6 months like Windows 10 currently is. I think this was the intention with Windows 10 anyway, hence the "last version of Windows" stuff. I wonder if this next version of Windows is an attempt to throw off some of the bad rap Windows 10's gotten with the "forced updates", unpopular Start menu design, ads on the lock screen, bundled shitware games,…

I really wish I could get the rotating nature image on the Lock Screen without the ads. I think Google hangouts used to do this and I really enjoyed that aspect. I think Google hangouts possibly linked to Google+ photos, but they were more tasteful about it. I don’t even know what the Windows Lock Screen ads are for, but they feel in my face. Certain attempts to log in to Windows will also open Edge.

You can disable all the ads. Though it does require digging through the settings.

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Post by AlexandrB »

philliphaydon wrote: post #28
artificialLimbs wrote: post #18

>> Windows 10 was released in July 2015 and dubbed "Windows as a service" Can we please have 7 back, with its complete lack of built in ads, dark patterns ramming the Microsoft browser down your throat, telemetry everywhere (the calculator, really?), changes for the sake of showing that some manager did something rather than functionality (Rename this PC -> Rename this PC (Advanced))? Windows 10 still regularly shows…

Pass. Windows 10 is just so much better than 7. I still don’t get why people don’t move on. I’m happier having window 10 which has never crashed on me vs 7 which did it weekly.

Windows 10 has lost me weekends' worth of experiment data multiple times thanks to its insistence on installing updates on a whim. Windows 7 has never done that. I would call Windows 7 more stable.

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by GrumpyNl »

artificialLimbs wrote: post #18

>> Windows 10 was released in July 2015 and dubbed "Windows as a service" Can we please have 7 back, with its complete lack of built in ads, dark patterns ramming the Microsoft browser down your throat, telemetry everywhere (the calculator, really?), changes for the sake of showing that some manager did something rather than functionality (Rename this PC -> Rename this PC (Advanced))? Windows 10 still regularly shows…

I agree, try to play solitaire on win 10.

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by pkulak »

swiley wrote: post #67
artificialLimbs wrote: post #18

>> Windows 10 was released in July 2015 and dubbed "Windows as a service" Can we please have 7 back, with its complete lack of built in ads, dark patterns ramming the Microsoft browser down your throat, telemetry everywhere (the calculator, really?), changes for the sake of showing that some manager did something rather than functionality (Rename this PC -> Rename this PC (Advanced))? Windows 10 still regularly shows…

Microsoft knows it's a dead end. It's time to put Pop OS or some other "user friendly" distro on your machines.

Yup. Windows runs great in a VM for the one or two apps with no Linux equivalent. Windows is just an application runtime.
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