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Hey, you Windows users, upgraded yet?
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TigerNet Grandmaster [198479]
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Hey, you Windows users, upgraded yet?
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Oct 14, 2025, 7:09 AM
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Today is the day Microsoft ends support for Windows 10. It’s an unprecedented step, as never before have so many active PCs been flung into the land of unsupported machinery. Millions of people remain content to keep going without upgrading to Windows 11, but they’ll now have do so without security updates.
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This is why I upgraded to a Mac!***
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Oct 14, 2025, 7:21 AM
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TigerNet Grandmaster [198479]
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There is a little of a learning curve on some stuff
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Oct 14, 2025, 7:26 AM
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but I have owned a Mac of some sort for 15 years at least.
I love being able to do messages, answer my phone, even access my Phone's apps now on my Mac. It just works.
signed,
Papa G, Apple fan boy.
LOL
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Ultimate Tiger [35782]
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Windows Phone Link FTW***
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Oct 14, 2025, 7:31 AM
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Its not as seamless as Mac OS / iCloud, imo
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Oct 14, 2025, 1:38 PM
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And for quite a quite it wouldn't support the newest Iphone (Iphone 15 at the time). I haven't tried it since then.
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Ultimate Tiger [35782]
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Yeah, I'm not a big apple fan...
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Oct 14, 2025, 1:47 PM
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the wife and kids all have iphones and apple accounts.
Give me Android and windows any day. It just feeling like Apple is for folks that don't know what they're doing and just want real simple...which I know is what their business model is. I just feel like I can do so much more with Android especially. Google's cross platform security and account/password management is 2nd to none.
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I had an android prob 10+ years ago
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Oct 14, 2025, 2:14 PM
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It started doing weird thing in its old age, so I ditched it.
You're right--the Iphone is built to make it simple. I like that. I don't want to have to work on my phone, too.
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Ring of Honor [22665]
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I've still got 6 computers at work to get upgraded.
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Oct 14, 2025, 7:28 AM
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Gonna be a long day.
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TigerNet Grandmaster [198479]
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Remember the issue with airline computers a year or so ago?
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Oct 14, 2025, 7:31 AM
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Was it Southwest that had some computers still running something like Windows 95 so their systems worked?
Good luck!
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Ultimate Tiger [35782]
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Dang win 10 is 10 yrs old now...
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Oct 14, 2025, 7:33 AM
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and the upgrade to win 11 is free for many/most devices and win 11 is 4+ yrs old.
Borderline irresponsible in a business to have not upgraded to win 11 yet.
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TigerNet Legend [139916]
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Many are not upgradable to 11***
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Oct 14, 2025, 7:39 AM
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Ultimate Tiger [35782]
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Sure, but that means you have a crap machine...
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Oct 14, 2025, 7:44 AM
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the requirements for win 11 aren't too strenuous. TPM2.0, 64bit, 1GHz process, and 4 GB of RAM.
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my only Windows 10 laptop went to be recycled by Goodwill.
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Oct 14, 2025, 7:38 AM
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It was very old, and low-end when we bought it, anyways.
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Microsoft is in a hurry to get everything into being a service.
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Oct 14, 2025, 7:58 AM
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Windows 12, or whatever, eventually it will all be a service. The only main difference between 10 and 11 is 11 is fully CAPABLE of being a service, paid for annually, like Office 365. Sure, the upgrade (now) is free, or you can buy it standalone still for like $199 for Pro, BUT.......
Once they get the entire flock into the Windows 11 world, watch it just one day will become a service, probably $99 a year or something. Writing is on the wall here.
As for now, the upgrade isn't a big deal, unless you have a 10+ year old PC. Well, I take that back, Windows 11 SUX until you make it your own. But with great effort, you can make it just like Windows 10, just know you will have to hack the registry, no less than 4 times. Spend another hour or so hunting for settings to change, etc. The dumbest thing is the limitation on the right click menu. That is one of the registry hacks.
You can even get the old control panel back, where it's 50 times easier to find and change settings from the Googlish massive menu crap they have now in settings. I rarely have to screw with anything in the awful system settings menu garbage.
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If they do that, and Apple doesn't, it may be enough to get me to
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Oct 14, 2025, 8:17 AM
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make the switch. If we consumers resist this ########, it won't happen.
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It's the new business model for the entire software world
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Oct 14, 2025, 12:25 PM
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Hate to say it.
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They wanted to do the Chromebook approach years ago
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Oct 14, 2025, 1:44 PM
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but corporations resisted.
I'd be very surprised if they move all of the workstation PC's to a subscription model because of the same reason.
Even if they do, they'll still have workstation versions available..you'll just have to have a key for it. I love my Virtual studio subscription 
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The little stick computer we have Velcro d to our projector
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Oct 14, 2025, 8:15 AM
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struggled after the update (it was pushed out by our IT, I would not have done it) but I finally managed to clean out enough stuff to get it to work. Everything except windows has to be on a flash drive tho
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ESU done free!
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Oct 14, 2025, 11:55 AM
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Old crappy machine (according to flow) is good till next Oct 13
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Been running Windows 11 in boot camp on a mid-2015 Macbook for a while.
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Oct 14, 2025, 1:37 PM
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It took some registry fiddlin' to get by the hardware reqs of Windows 11, but it runs really flawless. I have it on 2 MBP's now.
I updated the other MBP to the newest Mac OS and it was unusable, so I just put Windows on it, too.
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I just bought a new home PC, it was past time to do it
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Oct 14, 2025, 2:51 PM
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my old one was bought in 2008 and couldn't be upgraded any more, the Microsoft people said.
But hey, like I said, it was needed with a PC about to become adult legal age.
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