People can still upgrade via the Media Creation Tool, it's a digital entitlement. And it's not like Microsoft offered to upgrade to Win10 for free during it's first year.
Microsoft doesn't care if you upgrade today or even tomorrow. They want everyone on one platform. It's a hell of a lot easier to support one platform versus three (7, 8/8.1, 10).
Personally I just upgraded a few family members PC's to Win10. Activated and registered as digital entitlement, no issues. However for my business customers we make them buy Win10 licenses as they are much more likely to be audited by Microsoft in case there is fine print somewhere (I haven't found it).
If people want to continue using Win7, go for it. As long as you have a decent AV you should be fine. The bigger issue is getting your specific software to work on Win7 when THEY stop supporting the OS. Symantec Cloud Endpoints as of November will not install on a Win7 machine for instance.
A few years from now no one will care and most of the customer base will be on Win10. Just like when everyone lost their **** over the upgrade to Win7 from WinXP.
Microsoft doesn't care if you upgrade today or even tomorrow. They want everyone on one platform. It's a hell of a lot easier to support one platform versus three (7, 8/8.1, 10).
Personally I just upgraded a few family members PC's to Win10. Activated and registered as digital entitlement, no issues. However for my business customers we make them buy Win10 licenses as they are much more likely to be audited by Microsoft in case there is fine print somewhere (I haven't found it).
If people want to continue using Win7, go for it. As long as you have a decent AV you should be fine. The bigger issue is getting your specific software to work on Win7 when THEY stop supporting the OS. Symantec Cloud Endpoints as of November will not install on a Win7 machine for instance.
A few years from now no one will care and most of the customer base will be on Win10. Just like when everyone lost their **** over the upgrade to Win7 from WinXP.