That Microsoft would not do to encourage as many people to migrate to Windows 10? Recently a spokesman has chosen to pull the alarm on Windows 7.
On January 13, 2015, Microsoft abandoned the primary support of Windows 7. This means there will be more functional fixes or Service Pack published by Microsoft. However, until 2020, the system will continue to receive security patches as part of extended support.
Probably to avoid a similar phenomenon to that of Windows XP - whose market share was over 30% at the end of extended support - it seems that Microsoft has chosen to take now the alarm. Indeed, guest on the Windows Weekly podcast, Chris Capossela, Microsoft's marketing director, said that users who have chosen to stay on Windows 7 should do so "at their own peril."
"We are very concerned when people use an operating system 10 years old and with which they will buy the next printer will not work very well," said the man. He added that the new Fallout 4 type games also may cause compatibility problems.
Mr. Capossela said: "We encourage our software and hardware partners to design great new things by taking maximum advantage of Windows 10 but immediately make old products really bad in comparison, and that's not to mention viruses and security problems. "
Still, those words will certainly have a hard time convincing users. Windows 7 is a globally popular system. After the disappointments of the 8.x Windows interface for Windows 10, Microsoft has also insisted on a very close ergonomics of Windows 7, that is to say with a Start menu. For Microsoft, the challenge is to migrate including a maximum of companies to the new OS.
According to Net Market Share figures, at present, Windows 7 would have a market share of 55.69%. Suffice to say that the system is still largely supported by device manufacturers who dedicate him systematically a series of compatible drivers. And this is, of course, not an upgrade to Windows 10 that will make PC components readily compatible with a latest generation video game.
Finally in terms of security, patches will still be deployed for years. When asked by us in April 2014 on a possible parallel between Windows XP and Windows 7, Bernard Ourghanlian, technical director of Microsoft France, said that things were very different, especially in terms of software compatibility.
I think it is necessary to re-contextualize things. Windows XP was released in July 2001. This means that it was designed in 1997-98-99. At that time the Internet was not widespread. Potential threats were very different.
The withdrawal of Windows XP is not just business. It is especially today we can no longer protect him. If we wanted to get it right, it would completely change the core. Windows Vista and 7 were designed in the Internet age. They have a new kernel and we very consciously broke application compatibility.
Besides, in the end, it's the applications that make up the heart of the problem with Windows XP, either for the company or the consumer. This allowed us to put in place better protection devices and today we have a software compatibility logic very important between Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.
