Windows 7 users start to decline as Windows 10 reaches all-time high

[ShagnWagn]

I love windows 7 but I use Windows 10 as my main OS simply because it serves my purposes as a gamer and it is the de facto OS for most people.
I cannot stay online with a defunct OS - which Windows 7 is about to become - it's bad enough with a completely patched system.

I guess it depends on where you go and what you do with your computer. And how easily you let yourself get phished or install malware/adware. Win10 is the most malicious operating system I've heard of. I would rather have an infected Win7 than what artificially appears to be a "clean" Win10. I haven't used 3rd party antivirus since WinXP - at least 8-10 years ago. It was several years before that last time a virus tried to install on my PC. I caught it before it did anything and I cleaned it off immediately. It was while I was doing something I shouldn't have been doing.

As far as your opinion that Win10 is "the de facto OS for most people", I will tell you that nobody I have talked to prefers it over Win7. They are running Win10 because they are or were forced to.

I guess if Microsoft wants my computers to become part of a bot farm doing mass attacks against their Win10 computers, so be it I guess. Not my problem. I know how to clear them off if I want to.

 

[Dimitrios]

Like I have said before in other past thread, Microsoft has already been sabotaging Windows 7 for more than a year. Starting with the Spectre hotfix, but not ending with it, every new cumulative update for Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 make the system slower and more unresponsive than before. It's very noticeable if you're running it in an older, slower PC or a virtual machine with limited resource allocation.

They're doing the same with Windows 8.1 / 2012R2 by the way.

Same here. Ive been getting a lot of updates on my Windows 7 machine and it was acting slow a few times. Also my connection strength is spotty now. I'm still running nice and lean at around 900MB in Task manager.

Anyone running RYZEN on Windows 7??????? I heard you can run it but don't get the so called full "potential" of the processor?

 

[foxrox]

I've started pushing myself harder to accept Linux and become an expert with it, but it is lacking so much in terms of nice software. The OS itself is solid. I actually love Linux Mint and openSUSE. However, the hard part is that even the simplest utilities we take for granted (CPU-Z, GPU-Z, HWiNFO64, AIDA64, etc.) have no functional equivalent under Linux. Using Thunderbird and LibreOffice sucks compared to Outlook and the full M$ Office suite and WINE is hit or miss. Very meager and disappointing offerings on the software side of things with an otherwise excellent alternative to Windows.

But, Windoze OS X sucks enough that I am trying harder to put up with Linux. However, Micro$lop supporting Windows 7 is not important to me. I will continue using it for a very long time without any "updates" from them. I've not allowed any automatic updates for more than 5 years. I decide and install the updates I choose to install myself. I've been a Windows 10 user since before it was released (Insider program) and I have it installed on 5 of my 6 computers (my two main systems multi-boot, so I am not without Windows 7 on the machines I use most) and my main system is quad-boot, including Linux and two versions of Windows 10. But, as much as I have used it since 2014, I still think it is a sucky piece of crap operating system. Yup, I hate it bad enough to force myself into tolerating the mediocrity of Linux... because Windows 10 is cancer-infested, bloated, digital rubbish.

 

[foxrox]

Anyone running RYZEN on Windows 7??????? I heard you can run it but don't get the so called full "potential" of the processor?

That's just another lie from the Redmond Retards. They tried to tell us that we could not get the full potential from Intel's latest processors as well, and it's hogwash. They're just trying to arm-twist and act like Nazis to get more people to drink their Kool-Aid. Any CPU that works on Windows 10 works better on Windows 7 because it's not hobbled by all of the bloat. They introduced a RTC error with Windows 8 that was never fixed and it was inherited by Windows 10, so these clowns are clearly not the sharpest tools in the shed. They aspire to have a PC look and feel like a smartphone. They seem to have a fetish with matte pastel colors and the love to abuse blue and white in the GUI. (Their disgusting abuse of bright blues and snow white is enough to make one want to puke, LOL.) No thanks... they can keep the change.

 

[JackDeth]

Windows 10 absolutely sucks and is still terribly buggy! Windows in general sucks and it's very insecure. This is proven time and time again and still being proven over and over, since the beginning of the year, with the big influx of new ransomware viruses affecting it. I have been using Linux Mint as my primary OS for several years now and couldn't be happier.

 

[foxrox]

Windows 10 absolutely sucks and is still terribly buggy! Windows in general sucks and it's very insecure. This is proven time and time again and still being proven over and over, since the beginning of the year, with the big influx of new ransomware viruses affecting it. I have been using Linux Mint as my primary OS for several years now and couldn't be happier.

I have liked it for quite a long time (Linux Mint) but there are just too many things (software things) I want to do that Linux has nothing to offer. Otherwise, I think Linux is vastly superior to Windows 10.

I have used windows 3.11, NT, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 (one of the best windows along 7), 2003 (maybe the longest time used after 7), XP, Vista (for a few days), 7 and 10. Windows 10 is the worst of all.

I have used all of those as well and I quite agree.

Right there with you guys. Started with an 8088 and MS-DOS back in the day (yes I am an old dude now). Other than the WindowsME hiccup, I have looked forward to every new version of Windows until Windows 8.X was vomited onto the world. Windows 10 is just an update of Windows 8.X with more cancer added. I used to love Microsoft and hoped I could work for them some day, but not any more. I have no more respect for them because they have no respect for end users. They want what they want and don't give a rat's butt what end users want. And, what they want blows.

 

[Nobina]

If it was up to me I would still be on XP, it is my idea of a near perfect OS. I'm sure some of it is nostalgia. 10 is full of bloatware, updates which break your ****, delete your files (lol) and it's just buggy overall. The worst thing about it is Microsoft is still content with pushing their "Windows as a service" garbage even though people don't care about it.

 

[Kelzs77]

I plan on buying a new computer, and was considering window 10. I have no experience with it. I don’t know anyone who has one in my circle of friends. I mostly use my iPad to communicate on the World Wide Web . I was considering getting an Apple computer. But really don’t know that much about them. Window 10 is much like owning the rest of the window programs that we all complain about when it was time to change programs. Us humans, seem to have a problem with change. But if you always make the same choices you always get the same in return. It’s time to step outside the box and surf new horizons.

 

[onestepforward]

I just upgraded to windows 7 from windows 10.

10 is terrible

So now, 800,000,001 people who don’t like W10. Thankfully, MS listens to its customers /s

 

[foxrox]

I love and champion change. I am constantly looking for ways of changing things and making them better. I even make change happen through force. I have changed many aspects of Windows 10 from its default state to make it more tolerable. Change is awesome when it is good and provides benefits. Change implemented merely for the sake of change almost always sucks.

Unfortunately, Windows 10 does not represent positive change. It has too many negative implications to it, including measurably impaired CPU and memory performance. The aesthetic atrocities it carries are subjective and merely an annoyance. It's just not a good product overall. Early adopter and crash test dummy talking here, but not a Kool-Aid drinking yes man. I think it's more accurate to say that Micro$lop is the party with the biggest issue adjusting to change. They want to ram their crippled rubbish down all of our throats, interfere with things that are none of their business, and don't fix most of the things that their customers have told them sucks about Windows 10.

 

[lazer]

I am a win7 user. I bought a computer with win8 after mine old one with win7 was stolen. Had to remove win8 and install win7 so that I could use my purchased programs that I need for my work (and pleasure ) that win8 could not run.

I would never use win10, it looks and feels like a hippopotamus on crutches.

BTW, I NEVER update my win7, but do use a antivirus....

 

[Knot Schure]

I love and champion change. I am constantly looking for ways of changing things and making them better. I even make change happen through force. I have changed many aspects of Windows 10 from its default state to make it more tolerable. Change is awesome when it is good and provides benefits. Change implemented merely for the sake of change almost always sucks.

Unfortunately, Windows 10 does not represent positive change. It has too many negative implications to it, including measurably impaired CPU and memory performance. The aesthetic atrocities it carries are subjective and merely an annoyance. It's just not a good product overall. Early adopter and crash test dummy talking here, but not a Kool-Aid drinking yes man. I think it's more accurate to say that Micro$lop is the party with the biggest issue adjusting to change. They want to ram their crippled rubbish down all of our throats, interfere with things that are none of their business, and don't fix most of the things that their customers have told them sucks about Windows 10.

They are 'throwing the customer under the bus', to mine our data, and push their Windows Store, is ALL I can see.

 

[bob larrance]

Listen, my friends. Windows is a joke OS that belongs on phones only, the product of greedy no-vision capitalists...Windows 7 is being killed because greedy Redmond can't suck nickels and dimes out of it. Don't be absorbed by the stanky corporate MS blob.

 

[arrowflash]

Same here. Ive been getting a lot of updates on my Windows 7 machine and it was acting slow a few times. Also my connection strength is spotty now. I'm still running nice and lean at around 900MB in Task manager.

Yep, I run Windows 8.1 as my main daily driver OS and never update (WU service fully disabled), but I often mess with virtual machines running all versions of Windows and I often update those (still always manually though). So I see the effects of the updates.

Right there with you guys. Started with an 8088 and MS-DOS back in the day (yes I am an old dude now). Other than the WindowsME hiccup, I have looked forward to every new version of Windows until Windows 8.X was vomited onto the world. Windows 10 is just an update of Windows 8.X with more cancer added. I used to love Microsoft and hoped I could work for them some day, but not any more. I have no more respect for them because they have no respect for end users. They want what they want and don't give a rat's butt what end users want. And, what they want blows.

I got my first PC in the Windows 3.1 days. So I went through every new version since Windows 95. I've even used Windows Vista since day one and unlike most people, I quite liked it and had very few problems with it - in fact, I thought it was a lot more stable and reliable than pre-SP1 Windows XP and pre-SP1 Windows 2000.
I'd say the only old Windows version comparable to Windows 10, is Windows Me. In fact, for a long time after Windows 10 was introducted and launched, I used to jokingly call it Windows Me 2.0. The difference is that Windows Me came out at a time when most people who used computers had an ounce of sense and critical thinking, also the web was still young so paid shilling and astroturfing weren't so prevalent like they are today. And companies still listened to their users instead of trying to force their ways unto them. So, Windows Me flopped.

Now, about Windows 8.x, it actually has a lot more in common with Windows 7 than Windows 10, both in functionality and codebase. Afaik, Windows 10 was the first Windows OS with a fully reworked codebase since Windows Vista. To me Windows 8.1 works as a pretty decent update to Windows 7 with improved performance and some nice new features for power users, if you take steps to remove the bloat and install Classic Shell, of course.

 

[treetops]

I remember the dos days but didn't have my own computer til windows 95-98. Xp was a good os, but had its bugs. I love Windows 7, I really can't complain about it. 10 has the same hardware requirements as 7, I really don't consider it a new OS. Vista was a jump from XP, 7 perfected Vista. Then the 8-10 shat parade began, apps in place of programs, tablet like ui.... I don't believe that 10 will be their last OS despite their official statement. Low tablet\smart phone sales will likely force them to make another decent OS for pc. Who knows how long thatl take.

 

[angelinamax]

That's true I am using window 10 as well

 

[kmo911]

Every os that has been taken down. end of use. we cry a little. using those nice os and now they are R.I.P grave yard. still ill be using win 7 on old p4 that not can run win 8 8.1 10.
still I can use w 95 a b c d 98 se win me 20xx server. ms must just keep up a button dont bother me. if I want tu use win 3.0 should it come up a not upgrade to win 10 ? thats a dos computer yeah.
o.c im at win 10 1809 now. cant surf the internet with low OS 3.1 11- 98se 2000

 

[speedracer08861]

I prefer Windows 7, but I will never go to Windows10 infact I'm migrating all of my customers to Ubuntu for free.

 

[DelJo63]

I prefer Windows 7, but I will never go to Windows10 infact I'm migrating all of my customers to Ubuntu for free.

Admiral for sure, but You've got a LOT of training to do.

 

[IAMTHESTIG]

I have used windows 3.11, NT, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 (one of the best windows along 7), 2003 (maybe the longest time used after 7), XP, Vista (for a few days), 7 and 10. Windows 10 is the worst of all.

Naaa, ME was the worst by far. You couldn't install anything on it without getting BSoD's. You can at least install stuff in 10 and it doesn't crash. ;-)

ME was just a marketing joke, trying to make 9x kernel OS look like Win2000. Except everyone in IT saw right through it and just laughed. Unfortunately the consumers had to suffer. I believe most people went back to 98SE or paid the extra buck for Win2000.

I'd bet money if it could be proven, but I bet there is probably less than 100 copies of Windows ME still running today.

 

[IAMTHESTIG]

POLISHED... turd?

It already is... there is shiny stuff all over Win10. I think it is about to get shinier too with their so-called "fluent design". Which basically means putting the pretty aero glass theme all over their crappy new UI elements.

 

[Impudicus]

Updates in the past year or so have significantly slowed the performance of windows 7. Saw the same thing near the end of XPs life. Is it intentional or just that performance optimization has found it's was to the back burner. But when comparing a vm that hasn't been updated in 5 years to an updated clone the difference is clear.

 

[rickcarufel]

Seem the latest Microsoft criminal activity is to make it impossible to use a webcam with Win 7 64 since I can suddenly no longer make video calls using Skype or Facebook. Where I come from this is know as racketeering and violations of Monopoly and anti-trust laws.

 

[rickcarufel]

I have noticed a degradation of my system overall every time I use internet explorer or skype when makes it's daily update that if you cancel it Skype will no longer run. Why isn't forced changes to my computer without my permission or knowledge a crime?

 

[rickcarufel]

I have noticed a degradation of my system overall every time I use internet explorer or skype when makes it's daily update that if you cancel it Skype will no longer run. Why isn't forced changes to my computer without my permission or knowledge a crime?

Just tried to do a system restore to try and get some functionality back and all the restore points are gone.