{"id":981,"date":"2016-07-20T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T22:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2016-07-20T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T22:38:56","slug":"ready-or-not-free-windows-10-upgrade-ending-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2016\/07\/20\/ready-or-not-free-windows-10-upgrade-ending-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready or Not &#8212; free Windows 10 Upgrade ending soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re still getting nags on your PC to upgrade to Windows 10, then either I hope that&#8217;s an oversight you&#8217;ll address before the end of July, or you really do not want the Upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>PC World&#8217;s article &#8220;<a title=\"The clock is ticking, folks. If you want to upgrade to Windows 10 for free, you only have until July 29, 2016 to do so\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3092365\/windows\/10-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-upgrade-to-windows-10.html#slide1\" target=\"_blank\">10 reasons to reject Microsoft&#8217;s free Windows 10 upgrade<\/a>&#8221; summarizes why some people are not upgrading. However, as I&#8217;ve discussed in other posts, bypassing the Upgrade can be tricky.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s that list of reasons not to upgrade:<\/p>\n<p>No Windows Media Center or DVD support<br \/>\nNo desktop gadgets or widgets<br \/>\nNo OneDrive placeholders<br \/>\nNo control over Windows Updates<br \/>\nPrivacy concerns<br \/>\nAds and more ads<br \/>\nMicrosoft&#8217;s aggressive upgrade tactics<br \/>\nSoftware compatibility<br \/>\nHardware compatibility<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t broke, don&#8217;t fix it<\/p>\n<p>Note: If you have a Windows 7 PC, Windows 7&#8217;s no longer getting any feature updates or Service Packs; Mainstream Support ended January 13, 2015; and Extended Support (bug \/ security patches) ends January 14, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re still getting nags on your PC to upgrade to Windows 10, then either I hope that&#8217;s an oversight you&#8217;ll address before the end of July, or you really do not want the Upgrade. PC World&#8217;s article &#8220;10 reasons to reject Microsoft&#8217;s free Windows 10 upgrade&#8221; summarizes why some people are not upgrading. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55,48],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-upgrade","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}