Windows 10 is one the smartest, most consistent and well-thought-out Windows updates in a decade and it pains me to see people rejecting an operating system that would likely improve their digital lives.
But there’s also a thing called free will and people have a right to just say no. And when they do that, you have to accept their decision and move on. Eventually, people usually make the right call or realize that holding onto aging technology is actually hurting them in other ways.
There’s no question Microsoft wants everyone to upgrade to Windows 10 — it hopes to have a billion installs by 2018. That’s why they made it so easy, offering free upgrades to all Windows 7 and 8.1 users. (Those upgrades cease to be free, by the way, on July 29.)
However, a free upgrade doesn’t mean much to you if you do not want to upgrade. Yes, upgrading to Windows 10 is a good idea for most, but we all know that some people have no interest in the new, and often with good reason. Perhaps they’re running old hardware that can’t run Windows 10 without problems or, more likely, they have legacy software and systems that are incompatible with it.
Getting everyone technically on the same page is a beautiful dream, but ignores the reality of business, tech migration and legacy systems. Users don’t march in lockstep from one thing to the next, and no amount of engineering or sleight-of-hand is going to change that.
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