The last thing is the Many Lawsuits and possible Antitrust Fines along with FDA and HIPPA fines that MS is going to get hit with due to forcing Win10 upgrades onto some doctors offices. Keep in mind that some of that medical software being used is FDA approved for very specific configurations of Windows and it was not approved for Win10. MS by forcing an upgrade without consent is possibly liable for billions of dollars in FDA fines alone. Take in the Billions for HIPPA violations that occurred due to the Forced Upgrade and Data Mining in Win10 and the Stock Holders are liable to fire the board, which the CEO doesn't care about. Their job is to minimize the impact of many of Balmers decisions in the last 5 years running MS - Yes it's the damn bean counters fault.

I care, I have Win 10 at work and Win7 on my home Ryzen system. Dislike Win10 and will stick to 7 because Win 10 has literally no benefits for me so why give them all my personal info and get nothing in return?

How about the fact that I control the Updates being installed? Or the fact that Virtual PC 2007 does not run under Win8 and later due to changes? Once again, how about the eeping fact that Win8 is a Touch screen OS instead of a Desktop OS - You thought the Fisher Price looks of XP was bad? Win8 and later is even worse.

For those having problem with Win7 installing on new hardware, most of the time it's due to USB 3 since the installer doesn't recognize it. Simply fix is to disable USB 3 mode in the firmware where possible. The real issue is whether the UEFI firmware has the CSM mode available. Means Win7 can install in compatibility mode (bios) instead of pure UEFI as it doesn't fully support it. Recently reinstalled Win7 on my system and discovered that when I disabled the CSM completely so yes, there can be some problems.

The last thing is the Many Lawsuits and possible Antitrust Fines along with FDA and HIPPA fines that MS is going to get hit with due to forcing Win10 upgrades onto some doctors offices. Keep in mind that some of that medical software being used is FDA approved for very specific configurations of Windows and it was not approved for Win10. MS by forcing an upgrade without consent is possibly liable for billions of dollars in FDA fines alone. Take in the Billions for HIPPA violations that occured due to the Forced Upgrade and Data Mininng in Win10 and the Stock Holders are liable to fire the board, which the CEO doesn't care about. Their job is to minimize the impact of many of Balmers decisions in the last 5 years running MS - Yes it's the damn bean counters fault.

Whaaaaat ?! I finally relented a few months back & upgraded one of my machines from Win7 Pro to Win10, solely to get DX12 for 2080 TIs ...all that frustration for ?

What on earth people love about Win7 I don't understand since even 8.1 was better than 7. And 7 was slower than XP.
It's more about GUI changes and not actual performance why people stick with something they are visually familiar with.

Regarding XP vs 7, it's very difficult to compare both because the former only has a 32-bit version for consumers, the scheduler wasn't optimized for more than two cores, with Vista and later thus performing better on quad cores and beyond, and XP also lacks support for TRIM and AVX.

many of the reasons for not wanting to use 10 are totally invalid since it can all be turned off in under 30 seconds.

I'm sure MS has it's reasons and it's all money based you can be sure of

I dunno, Win10 has gained a LOT of momentum over the past couple years and it has surpassed Win7 to become the new leader in OS market share. Sure, its still close at the moment, but with Win7's extended support nearing an end I expect Win10 will be the dominant OS on PC very quickly.

Even the most hardcore of Win10 haters will soon have to choose between leaving MS (and all of its vast compatibility advantages) altogether or sucking it up and installing Win10.

The real problem is one of education. Learning to have a minimum level of computer related understanding is the XXI century equivalent of learning to read.

It's funny, people say Linux is too hard, but look at the hoops people jump through just to get Windows to function the way they want and to stop Windows from doing things it shouldn't be doing in the first place.

Hi,
Doubt anyone really cares
Anyone still on win-7 is likely going to linux and what ever gaming goes on it which will be vulkan which by the way works very well on win-7