PC Magazine - USA (2020-01)

Farewell,

Windows 7

YOUR COMMENTS

READER INPUT

I don’t know what the big thing is with everyone

having trouble with Windows 10. I used 7 for

years, then went to 8 and dumped it (crap). Enter

Windows 10, and I have really had no problems

with it. I keep my computer up to date, and it

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out. But that is not Microsoft’s fault; it’s just a fact

of getting old (70-plus).

—Wendy Hamilton

Would not a good full-featured suite such as

Bitdefender safeguard Windows 7 machines

forever?

—DaveNLR

No. [Bitdefender] is for system protection.

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security to the operating system itself, which no

antivirus can ever do, as they are designed to

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—Joshua Ferraz

Stop trying to scare people into an OS that is only

a reskin of Windows 7. Kernel changes have been

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to secure 7 yourself, and stop relying on a

corporation for crap you should have been doing

on your own already. For that matter you can get

7 working on a Ryzen 2k series chip, proving my

point about the kernel.

—Dorian Gray

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end of Microsoft
support for the
Windows 7 OS. Here’s
how readers are
reacting.