Windows 7 retired with a full-screen goodbye you had to click through
Windows 7 support ended January 14, 2020 with a takeover nag
The market's verdict: +2.0% on MSFT in the week after.
What actually happened
On January 14, 2020, Microsoft ended free security updates for Windows 7 while a huge share of the world's PCs still ran it, and marked the occasion with a full screen notification that, per Microsoft's own support page, would remain on screen until the user interacted with one of its options. The OS that people had clung to for a decade because they liked it got sent off with a modal dialog. Five years later the same production ran again for Windows 10, with the same reviews.
This one is officially acknowledged.
They did it more than once
Every five and a half years: the same invoice, the same full-screen farewell.
Links
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Acknowledgement
- Microsoft Support (official)
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Impact
- ZDNet (publication)
↳ caused by Windows 7 end of support (January 2020)
Timeline
- Jan 14, 2020 Stood by it Microsoft stood by it.