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Windows 8 has reached end of life and unlike what happened with Windows 7

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Microsoft has been very clear that there will be no extensions it is going away

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and it is going away forever

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who cares am I right even at its peak

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hardly anyone used it by comparison even Vista was a hit but why

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Microsoft's greatest sin we almost universally agreed was throwing away the

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traditional desktop interface that they had spent 20 years perfecting in favor

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of this touch-centric approach that was so half-baked that even the few people

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who actually had touchscreens at the time warned everyone they knew to stick

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with Windows 7. so good riddance to bad garbage then right

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wrong Windows 8 may have been a commercial failure but it also

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introduced many of the innovations that Windows 10 would ultimately get credit

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for and by the time it got its first and

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only service pack it was not only not awful but with some minor tweaks it was

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one of the fastest most stable and most usable versions of Windows ever I

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actually still use it to this day so then what did you miss out on

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statistically speaking probably Windows 8 and given that I haven't segued to it

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start screen really did look great and

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on the right device it was actually pretty pleasing to navigate this flat

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tile-like style was called the Metro design language at the time and it was

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meant to unify the look of everything from Windows phone to the Microsoft

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website to even the Xbox interface it

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was probably Windows 8's biggest success story and we still see its influence

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today both in products from Microsoft and in products from its competitors

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along with this new design philosophy they introduced metro style apps their

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influence also remains but their long-term success is at best

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questionable these apps were special because they ran full screen didn't have

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the traditional window decorations menus and title bars and were only available

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from the new Windows store an interesting example of one is actually

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Internet Explorer Windows 8 confusingly

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shipped with two versions of IE a touch friendly Metro version for people who

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clicked on it by accident and a classic desktop one for quite literally everyone

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else the Metro apps at least the ones that

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still function today do work well with a full screen touch interface but this

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parallel development of similar apps resulted in an overall experience that

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was clunky was confusing and was unfortunately pervasive throughout the

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entire operating system Microsoft's either unwillingness or inability to

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commit to a single interface Paradigm made Windows 8 by far the most confusing

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OS that I have ever interacted with and it's a problem that continues to plague

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Windows to this day as evidenced by the presence of the classic control panel

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which is still there in Windows 11. I

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mean their intentions were good to help you get around the OS Windows 8 borrowed

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liberally from its mobile cousins encouraging users to swipe from the

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edges of the screen in order to perform common tasks swiping on the left side

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reveals the charm bar where you can search for apps share content get to the

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start screen manage devices and quickly access common system settings the the

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behavior of the charms change depending on the active app replacing

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functionality that might otherwise be hidden away in a menu in a traditional

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desktop app on that subject Microsoft put considerable work into ensuring that

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your older Windows 7 apps would function as expected

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the problem is that the way that they implemented it was Kaka the start screen

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does have a button to reveal a traditional desktop but that desktop is

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basically treated like any other Metro app that doesn't sound disastrous until

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you think about it for three seconds because then you'll probably realize

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that that means any program that might be running inside the desktop app cannot

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be navigated to like a Metro app would so you can't just swipe from the left

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edge of the screen and get directly to say a word window that's hiding behind a

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file explorer window you can only swipe to the desktop as a whole and then poke

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around at it from there if all this stuff could have been

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disabled at launch along with the default behavior of opening the full

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screen Metro UI every time you so much as grazed the Windows key I believe

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users would have flocked to Windows 8 like they had to Windows 7. it had a lot

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more going on under the hood than most people give it credit for Safety and

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Security for starters both improved thanks to the introduction of BitLocker

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full disk encryption UEFI boot support improved Biometrics and Windows

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Defenders antivirus capabilities Windows Live Family Safety built on the parental

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controls that were introduced in Vista then confusingly reduced in Windows 7

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only to finally make their return online services were more tightly integrated

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than ever with various services from Bing to Xbox to SkyDrive either having

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dedicated new apps of their own or adding functionality to others and there

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was even a new Windows to go feature that let you boot a fully manageable

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live Windows environment off of a USB key it was super cool but was largely

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ignore it as an enterprise-only feature many other existing applications were

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also overhauled with new looks and new functionality we'll put a link in the

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description with a list because there's way too many to mention here honestly up

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until this point I could understand if it doesn't even really look that bad to

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you the start button is totally gone but

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we still have a taskbar to pin apps to along with all the space on the desktop

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so who cares I mean interacting with the desktop with

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a touch screen feels a lot like it did in Microsoft's older attempted tablet

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interfaces that is to say you can make

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it work but okay here's the thing I went

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out of my way to find a device for all of our b-roll so far that has a touch

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screen and was explicitly designed for this new interface let's instead put

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ourselves in the shoes of a typical Windows user back in 2012. our desktop

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PC is running Windows 7. fine just fine

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and Windows 8 has the same system

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requirements exactly which is great but

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doesn't have any new killer apps so on the one hand we don't have to buy a new

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computer unlike that whole mess with Windows Vista a few years ago but if we

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were to go ahead and upgrade we would discover that in Microsoft's reimagined

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new world order Windows users without touch screens which is to say nearly all

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of them were suddenly second-class citizens and for what

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instead of just swiping anywhere along the edge of the screen to activate the

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new navigation and tools mouse and keyboard users had to move the mouse

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into one of the four corners of the screen and then get this left or right

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click depending on what they were trying to do this is a awful because it's really easy

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to activate it by accident say when you're oh I don't know trying to close

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an app and B completely different from

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the touch screen experience I mean why not just have Mouse users move the

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cursor to the right side of the screen click and then drag in to get the charms

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bar you know so there has to be an intent to it then you could just do the

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same thing on the left to switch apps I mean the idea of having a hidden menu or

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taskbar on the edge of the desktop wasn't even a new one you could Auto

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hide the taskbar way back in Windows 95 so why not make use of that same thing

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here and give everyone an equal experience making it even worse

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Microsoft didn't go out of their way to explain the new navigation scheme to the

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user that is outside of the initial setup so if your favorite grandchild

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happened to set up your new PC or if you wandered off to make a sandwich while

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the installer was doing its thing you would have had no idea that these

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important features even existed with the start button ripped from the taskbar it

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also wasn't obvious how users were intended to launch desktop apps if there

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wasn't an icon on the desktop or on the taskbar you would either have to open up

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the start screen by moving your cursor into the bottom left corner past where

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the start menu should have been and then left click to open the start screen then

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you'd have to right click on the start screen selecting all apps and then

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finally find and click on your app alternately you could move the mouse to

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the equally unlabeled top or bottom right corner of the screen wait for the

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charms bar to appear carefully move the cursor to the search icon and then type

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in the name of the program you're hoping to run In fairness the search at least

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worked unlike Windows 11 but because the

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focus of the start screen is on the new metro style apps anything involving

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desktop apps felt like a lot of extra work it's no wonder that Indie

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developers leapt to the rescue producing replacement start buttons and start

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menus for all those poor frustrated users without touch screens which might

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I remind you once more was functionally all of them now before you you start to

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comment you know obviously Linus has forgotten about keyboard shortcuts of

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course I know there are keyboard shortcuts but come on we have all

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watched that relative use their computer keyboard shortcuts might as well not

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exist for most people and we need to accept that and we need to build

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interfaces that account for it I haven't even gotten to the worst part yet you

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couldn't play free cell or Minesweeper without downloading them from the new

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Windows store with your shiny new and mandatory Microsoft account

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sorry I should have warned you before saying something that upsetting if you

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feel the need to replace your underwear you can check out our new designs at lttstore.com

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in all seriousness though users that upgraded existing systems were not happy

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with the interface changes and they told their friends who told their friends who

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all appear to have listened because Windows 8 as it was first released never

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managed to crack even 10 of the market of Windows users luckily though

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Microsoft also listened and just days

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before the one year anniversary of Windows 8 they released a service pack

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that was so roided out it necessitated a whole new version number Windows 8.1

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arrived on the scene like Gandalf on shadowfax bringing with it the start

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button and a whole host of new features

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and usability improvements Microsoft clearly recognized that most of their

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users did not have touch screens so 8.1

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made it much easier to stay on the desktop most of the time they even made

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it possible to boot directly to the desktop instead of booting to the start

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screen and they acknowledged that for many users the full full screen Metro

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apps were actually step backwards in terms of productivity particularly for

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multitasking and they made it possible to run at least two Metro apps side by

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side and up to four at once on a higher resolution display auto hidden title

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Bars were added on metro style apps making them easier to manage for

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non-touch users and the taskbar was now accessible on the start screen by moving

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the mouse to the bottom 8.1 also allowed more customization of the start screen

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added more built-in apps greatly expanded the settings app so that you

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weren't forced to revert to using the old control panel to deal with common

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administrative tasks and improved the search charm by allowing it to find

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files and online content rather than just programs 8.1 didn't abandon the

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Bold vision of Windows 8 but it did temper that Vision with a healthy dose

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of reality the version of Windows 8.1 that I still use regularly high back by

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the way is a modified image of Windows 8.1 embedded industry Pro that the

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modern cheekly calls Windows 9. it hacks

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out any unnecessary Telemetry and pre-packages a variety of usability mods

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resulting in an extraordinary combo of stability responsiveness and low system

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requirements unfortunately like the rest of Windows 8

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it will no longer be getting critical security updates and it's time for me to

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move on if Windows 8 had gone on to build the same kind of user base that

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Windows 7 did I could probably expect Microsoft to quietly extend the support

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window a little bit but unfortunately by

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the time the 8.1 update came the damage to its reputation was already done and

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that would never happen Microsoft wasn't offering free migration to new versions

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yet and Windows 7 users just didn't see any compelling reason to upgrade meaning

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that they were essentially forced to continue supporting Windows 7 removing

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the last remaining reason that one might

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upgrade to Windows 8. the obsolescence of what you're using Windows 7 ended up

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being so dominant that it saw virtually no change in market share until Windows

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10 came out in 2015. 8.1 did gain some

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ground in here and made it to almost 20 percent of the Windows Market but it's

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clear from Windows 7's flat line here that that was solely from folks

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replacing their old xpiera machines and

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users who were simply desperate to get off of Windows 8. like I'm desperate to

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