Making The Upgrade to Windows 11

 

 Well, finally did it.

 

 It was last week on October 14 that after ten years of use, Microsoft finally ended support for Windows 10, which in the early days they were calling the last Operating System we would be needing. But as we all know, that would not be the case and Windows 11 was developed. Early on, I heard about some issues, and like many saw no reason to change.

 

But a couple years ago, Microsoft announced support for Windows 10 was ending in October of this year. While there was the option to extend Windows 10 support (article), it would be only for a year. So decided to just go ahead and make the change. So I figured out what to do, and then restarted. 

 

 

So far, things seem okay, just different. One driver had an error message, but that may have been temporary. Getting used to things and figuring things out. So the news will be a little late. 

 

For those who haven't updated yet, there are still ways to do so (article).  

 

Sources: Forbes, PC Magazine  

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Chrome is Becoming a Real OS

If you have a PC, and are looking for something lighter you can take on the go, a laptop may be your first thought. If your budget's small, you may be considering an android tablet. But there's another option: a Chromebook. What's a Chromebook? Cyfir (Cyfiremmerich) recently got one after looking into what portable machine to get. So was he statisfied?

Read Cyfir's article in Extra.

Windows 7 Approaching "End of Life"

Next week marks the end of a chapter for users of PCs. On Tuesday January 14, Microsoft will no longer support the use of Windows 7. On Thursday, Linden Lab had a reminder that for anyone who hadn't upgraded their operating system, time was running out. They would also be changing the system requirements to run Second Life.

Microsoft is discontinuing support for Windows 7 on January 14th. This means that it will no longer get updates, including security patches. Therefore, running Windows 7 will become increasingly insecure as new vulnerabilities are discovered and not patched.

Accordingly, Linden Lab is updating our system requirements to remove Windows 7 from the versions we support. This does not mean that Second Life will stop working on Windows 7 immediately; existing viewers, and possibly some new viewers, should run as well as they did before. However, we will not be testing any viewers on Windows 7, so it is likely that compatibility problems will develop and increase over time. In addition, we will not attempt to fix any problems which occur only on unsupported operating systems (if a bug is reported against an unsupported system, we usually try to reproduce it on one that is supported; if we can't, we don't investigate further or attempt to fix it).

In order to keep your Second Life experience as reliable and secure as possible, we strongly recommend using only supported versions and keeping them updated with the latest vendor patches.

Windows 7 has been among the more popular versions of Windows, to the point many kept on using it after 8 and 10 came out. Windows 10 has had some problems in it's first few years. But ready or not, the old OS is going away, and the alternatives to upgrading to 10 are few and not for everyone.

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