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Oct 30, 2016Explorer II
If you are not online, not upgrading hardware beyond what Win 7 serves, and not installing applications that need Windows 10 features, then the answer is "probably yes."
I have a couple of old XP machines used to locally run applications (games) that were disabled by Vista/7/8. I have other applications on Windows 7 using workarounds for some security features in Vista that "broke" the applications, and these will not migrate to 10 because the workarounds are disabled. So I may have at least one Win 7 machine indefinitely.
But if you don't have old applications that are critical to you, I suggest you bite the bullet and move on to Windows 10, if you need Windows at all.
For most of what work I was doing on Windows 7, I found I could do it just as well on Mac OS-X, some with the same applications, some with replacements. The occasion for this move was Microsoft installing an ill-advised security update that wiped out my boot-block, and in attempting to recover, Windows Recovery damaged the recovery partition.
FWIW, I've already survived 7 years on Windows 7. I got my first Windows 7 machine shortly after the general release in late 2009.
I have a couple of old XP machines used to locally run applications (games) that were disabled by Vista/7/8. I have other applications on Windows 7 using workarounds for some security features in Vista that "broke" the applications, and these will not migrate to 10 because the workarounds are disabled. So I may have at least one Win 7 machine indefinitely.
But if you don't have old applications that are critical to you, I suggest you bite the bullet and move on to Windows 10, if you need Windows at all.
For most of what work I was doing on Windows 7, I found I could do it just as well on Mac OS-X, some with the same applications, some with replacements. The occasion for this move was Microsoft installing an ill-advised security update that wiped out my boot-block, and in attempting to recover, Windows Recovery damaged the recovery partition.
FWIW, I've already survived 7 years on Windows 7. I got my first Windows 7 machine shortly after the general release in late 2009.
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