![]() ![]() Or maybe MS will have a change of senior executives and realize that forcing functional updates on the unwilling is not such a good idea after all! That would be the simplest path for all of us, but I'm not holding my breath. I'll be expecting my ASTRO-software suppliers to be supporting Win7 well past Jan 2020, and when that runs out of gas, I'll switch to linux, or maybe BSD, and change out app software as required. I appreciate the InfoSec perspective, but I also see the potential vunerability from the Intel ME that make it all moot, anyway. And if hardware mfrs weren't forcing the matter and going all-in on Win10 on new machines for MS, I expect that the Win7 percentage would still be higher. Not to put too fine a point on it, it wasn't that long ago that Win10 managed to edge above 50% of windows platforms in service. I seldom browse with it, my home wifi is firewalled, and my browser and AV software are likely to be supported long after MS drops Win7. So I stay with Win7, which is functionally stable, for my scope laptop. I did try Win10 Pro in this role, just long enough for it to break, thanks to an update that changed features and drivers that I did not wish changed. Win10 is, by design not functionally stable, and is effectively under remote administration by MS, who are unaware of my requirements (and unconcerned by them). Scope control is, IMO, a process-control application that requires stability. Different perspectives make the world go 'round.
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