Windows 7 to Windows 10/11: To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade ?
Microsoft (MS) withdrew support for Windows 7 way back in 2014 in line with their general policy of planned version obsolescence. By all accounts, there are still a considerable number of older pcs running Win 7; their owners have either simply not been able to afford the cost of an upgrade, or have heard of the obstacles to upgrading, and are quite reasonably reluctant to risk trying to upgrade an older pc with a new OS that it may not be able to cope with. For anyone actually brave enough to try upgrading a Win 7 pc, MS have thrown an additional spanner in the works by no longer offering downloads for Win 10 or Win 11 installation on pcs they detect are still running Windows 7 or XP. Users are therefore effectively prevented by MS from using either of the more recent OS versions......the very versions that MS were originally prepared to let you upgrade to for free. This is an obvious ploy to force users to upgrade their old (but still serviceable) pcs to...