KotangaGirl
Pre-Grouping Railways Nut
So for the first time today I got a cheery popup message from Microsoft telling me that Win 7 would no longer be supported after Jan 22nd 2020. I followed some of the links were I was told I'd most probably need a new computer so I should check out these links for their associated business partners and that Win 10 would only cost me more than I earn in a week.
All I'll be doing in January is pulling the internet connection on my old monster of an HP dual Xeon workstation (Deeper Thought) and Microsoft and their greedy associated business partners can go stick it where the sun don't shine. Like many folk I run a lot of older games and software on my Win7 machine that simply won't work in Win10 so 'upgrading' ain't going to happen.
Fortunately I have laid by an ex-lease Coolmaster workstation now fitted with a GTX1050TI and a SSD that does have Win10 on it already and the base computer cost me less than a new copy of Win10. It's going to be a pain to transfer everything from TS2019 across to it, but since TS2019 needs to call home in order to keep functioning I don't have any choice.
My older versions of Trainz don't care whether I'm connected to the internet or not so they'll be staying where they are.
Win10 might be better at somethings than Win7, but I don't like all the unnecessary rubbish that comes along with its supposedly increased performance and the way it casually breaks stuff with every 'update' for the terrible crime of being out of date and 'old'.
All I'll be doing in January is pulling the internet connection on my old monster of an HP dual Xeon workstation (Deeper Thought) and Microsoft and their greedy associated business partners can go stick it where the sun don't shine. Like many folk I run a lot of older games and software on my Win7 machine that simply won't work in Win10 so 'upgrading' ain't going to happen.
Fortunately I have laid by an ex-lease Coolmaster workstation now fitted with a GTX1050TI and a SSD that does have Win10 on it already and the base computer cost me less than a new copy of Win10. It's going to be a pain to transfer everything from TS2019 across to it, but since TS2019 needs to call home in order to keep functioning I don't have any choice.
My older versions of Trainz don't care whether I'm connected to the internet or not so they'll be staying where they are.
Win10 might be better at somethings than Win7, but I don't like all the unnecessary rubbish that comes along with its supposedly increased performance and the way it casually breaks stuff with every 'update' for the terrible crime of being out of date and 'old'.