ShaneNewville posted at 12:58PM Fri, 04 December 2020 - #4406304

Update also means saying goodbye to certain software, some of which is no longer being updated for new OS's, which is not the funnest thing to do. ...or the best if you've got ongoing projects that rely on those things. Look at how some animation studio still use Softimage. That was discontinued ages ago. Good software is good software. If it works, why trash it for something that doesn't work as well?

I'm just saying don't give people a hard time if they don't want to update. There are valid reason.

That's basically what it comes down to for me. I don't have a problem with moving to win10, when I can afford to build a new pc. I've seen a number of articles and videos showing how to nerf its adware and spyware, so I'm not too concerned about that. But as it stands I have software that won't work in win10 and my current budget doesn't allow for building a new machine. I'm sure I'm not alone in that, especially considering an estimated 20% of windows users worldwide (ie hundreds of millions) are still on win7 with no intention of updating in the near future.