IT’S NO huge secret that we don’t hold Microsoft’s methods of selling products in high regard.
Updategate was a complete shower , and with that over, we appear to have moved into the scaremongering phase of the operation based on comments from the company’s German operation.
In a blog post on Technet, we’re warned that Windows 7 „only“ has three years of updates left, and even then it can’t hold a candle to Windows 10 in terms of enterprise features and security.
Tell that to the 40+ per cent of enterprises still using it.
„It provides for higher operating costs – for example, maintenance, lost working time due to increased malware attacks, or increased support requests. At the same time, many hardware manufacturers no longer provide drivers for Windows 7, which means that modern peripherals such as printers are no longer recognised.
„To give users a contemporary interaction between software and hardware, new processor generations only by the respective current Windows platform supports“ explains Microsoft (via a Bing translation)
„So Windows 10 is the only version of Windows provides the appropriate support for the latest chips from Intel, AMD and Qualcomm.
