Re: Avoid user account leakage in Windows 10? Quote:
Originally Posted by SaiJin speaking of keeping windows 7, from what I know you have to have an older hardware to be able to even boot it?
I called a computer shop the other day since I'll need to replace my old PC and they said all their current components can only run Win 10. | Hardware manufacturers are in bed with Microsoft. MS makes bloatware which invalidates prior hardware, and these manufacturers feed the cycle by limiting drivers to the most recent versions of MS OS.
Planned obsolescence is one of the evilest trappings plaguing humankind.
You'd probably be able to boot windows 7 from hardware that will be made in the year 2030 as long as there's no significant shift in hardware architecture - and it does not look like there would be one.
What might be more difficult would be backwards compatibility on Microsoft's part and that's because they're the greediest of the greedy.
You should be able to boot windows 7 from modern hardware. You might have trouble with the drivers being windows 10 but you only really need NIC, Audio, Printer and Graphics drivers anyway. 99% of the time, you can use 7zip to unpack the windows 10 drivers straight from executable format to folder and surprise! The core files inside that folder will be windows 7 compatible.
That's one way you can tell we the consumers are being shafted.
I converted an eleven-year-old HP XW6600 series Workstation to a server, and it efficiently runs 20 VMs concurrently without degradation and holds nearly 100 VMs.
To me, Windows 10 is 30% telemetry, 30% useless feature, 20% advertising and 20% useful feature.
I'll not purchase needless hardware just to host junk while I can still use Windows 7 or Linux.
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