Why did you stop supporting Windows 7

I am sympathetic.  

My clients are home users, who are not at all anxious to spend hard-earned money to replace something that fulfills their needs quite satisfactorily. My mission is and always has been to maximize the value my clients get from their system investments.

What my clients want and what I do is absolutely opposite to what Microsoft and the many related businesses want. They created the problem about 5 or 6 years ago when they delivered an absolutely perfect OS (Windows 7, which is actually Vista SP3) and hardware that holds up significantly better than they did before that.

As of May 2017, Win7 was about as good as it ever was going to be. Shutting down Microsoft’s opportunity to louse our systems up with bad and completely unnecessary “updates” was called for in my opinion. I did that for all my clients. After nearly 5000 computer use months without one single problem arising, I am certain that I was and continue to be right.

I realize that the vast majority of techies in the world and IE managers believe I am stark raving mad. My clients are constantly being told that I am misleading them. Then they start their computer up and it works perfectly fine. Same as it did the day before and the day before that.

Those paranoid techies are correct when it comes to their enterprise considerations. But, their mom, dad, uncles, aunts, and grandparents are not enterprises, and that update paranoia is just a waste of time and money. All they want is to be able to reliably use their email browse the web, and play a few games. Maybe even play some tunes and see some videos. Their 10 year old dual core does it all without a problem. All of this provided someone replaced the hard drive and re-installed Windows7 and limiting windows updates in the manner I describe in detail at: https://www.askwoody.com/2019/canadian-tech-how-to-rebuild-a-win7-system-with-minimal-snooping/

I plan on keeping my Win7 system along with supporting my many clients in the same way.  However, I am realistic in recognizing that eventually, Win7 will die because the myriads of enterprises involved in the many parts that make it work so well will gradually reduce and stop support of Win7.  When the ones that do this are the ones you need, the usefulness of Win7 will end.

Keep in mind that Microsoft is a profit-based business.  They needed to end Win7 because there was no more profit in it.  Frankly, I think Win7 is pretty much an ideal OS that just does not need any more help -- read sales.

I encourage you to re-install Windows soon as per my plan outlined on that web site.

"Why did you stop supporting Windows 7?"

I didn't stop supporting Windows 7. This is a community forum. No one from Microsoft here.

To answer your question - there were two compelling reasons why Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7:

1- It's not safe.

The safety weaknesses are intrinsic to the Windows 7 code. They can't be fixed without a major re-do of the operating system, and they can't be mitigated by antivirus software.

2- It's not mobile-friendly or cloud-friendly.

Windows 7 was written for computers, but today more and more work that was formerly done with computers is now done on phones, tablets, IOT devices and in the cloud. Windows 7 can't keep up with that.

While individuals can overlook changes in technology, companies cannot.

The caps were more for them then you, I was also annoyed because of what I had written and asked was stated as being for them.  As for companies having to change excuse me but when it comes to finances I doubt the companies care either. Yet I have problems and no one to check  with, I can't stand windows 10 which is why I don't use it and if it wasn't for my windows suddenly acting screwy I wouldn't be asking them for anything.  It must be nice to be able to afford in essence the change of pretty much all software with no worries.. well I can't do that , heck I can't afford the windows 10 which I was never going to purchase anyway after we were all able to try it, so you see I don't care that the company only thinks about money and could really care less how and what I feel, but as far as I am concerned that is really my problem and I was being very polite to you earlier but I am fully aware of how things have changed in the last 30+  years, but that has nothing to do with my original problem or situation.  As a matter of fact the only thing I care about is the I am in a way being messed with.  I am in serious need of some help and being told too bad for you.  So excuse me for being annoyed and honestly if you want me to be honest you are of no help and I specially said     "Please excuse this, but a community is now what I was trying to do, not that you couldn't be if help in other circumstances, truly the only one to give me a truthful answer is the ones who get everyone else to do their jobs"  So I have a right to be annoyed, it really is a shame they have gotten so big  you can't even deal with them anymore, they expect you to ask others who are not specialist and I said I did this for their attention, not yours.  So I have the best idea yet, I will continue to think of them as useless and remove this post because as usual someone has to make comments with no comprehension of my situation and don't need to know so thank you but I still don't get their stopping when last I looked nothing is coming out and windows 8 was barely noticeable, so why can't they explain things besides they  they are no longer supporting it and am sick of major companies doing what they do and yes I have my own beliefs as to why they do it.  So please stop as you honestly might be trying but you can't solve my problem and I know they don't even care!!  Since I have never gotten help from them in the past which is probably why this is making me angry.  So take care and let this drop please. I don't wish to get anyone else involved unless it is an actual employee from the company who can help me with my windows problem.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are the one who posted in caps; not me.

I only bolded and underlined what you wrote, including the caps.

And I am one of the few who do read all of the posts.

I then also included the Microsoft Office contact details to help you, as there is not what you want here; namely to talk to Microsoft.

Good luck with them.

Thanks for the caps and bold but that showed you never got to the end of the letter where I said thanks anyways, take care and stay safe.. so even trying to be nice got me no where so thanks and goodbye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!