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The official support of Windows 7 has finally ended today! (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Windows 7 still has a similar market share to desktop Linux. I suspect that some of those users are holdouts, rejecting the Cortana nonsense but too stubborn or lazy to switch. But I'd also wager that, in the longer term, a decent portion of that 3% ends up on Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Aww, that's the last version of windows I ever owned.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Goodbye, sweet prince

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago

*Good night

[–] [email protected] 116 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

There's a pretty good amount of people still using it, it seems.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (11 children)

https://time.com/12854/microsoft-to-take-windows-xp-off-life-support-despite-its-29-market-share/

XP was a whopping 29% at EOL which is impressive to me that 7 is only 3%. But it makes sense that 10 has such a large market share since it was free and ran on (almost) everything that ran 7.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 7 months ago (12 children)

I feel pretty comfortable saying that was the last good one, perhaps the best one, and it’s been downhill ever since.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

8.1 was a gem

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Best looking for sure.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 7 months ago (25 children)

It hasn't been steadily downhill. There was a plunge downwards with Windows 8, then 8.1 recovered a little and 10 more, before Windows 11 undid the gains.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (16 children)

Windows 7 recovered from the disaster of Vista. Windows XP recovered from Me. It has been a bumpy ride for a long time.