[LINK] What is Mircosoft trying to do?

[Brendan]

On 07/04/2016 12:21 PM, David Lochrin wrote:
> What Microsoft is trying to do is explained in the post "Canadian
> Tech replied on July 22nd, 2015" just over half-way down at:
> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/how-do-i-remove-the-windows-10-upgrade-nag-program/8b336d14-50fc-420c-85f6-8ec31473beda?auth=1

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> So, if you like Windows 7, and most do very much so, I advise you to
> reject Windows 10 for the foreseeable future.  Be advised that
> Microsoft has committed to support Windows 7 until at least January,
> 2020.  Most of your current computers will last that long. UNQUOTE

The corollary to this though is that if you don't like Windows 10, you should have a migration plan in place by 2020. Almost by definition that migration must be to some flavour of Linux.