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Why freeing Windows 7 opens doors

• 8jef 7y ago
  That would be wonderful. It would open a door that would never close back. And it does make sense, even business wise. Not as new profits for a company that's already making plenty on new fronts, but as a gesture contributing to entertain a legacy so immense, and rich, precisely because of the very presence of W7 in so many lives. And frankly, that has the potential to challenge the Linux BSD communities into becoming even better. MS should do it. Free W7 !!
• brokenmachine 7y ago
  What are the chances of this actually happening? More than zero?
• stevenicr 7y ago
  I'd love to see win 7 freed. I have 4 systems here that run win 7 - and I am not upgrading any of them to win 10. I'm also not upgrading my windows 8 to win 10. Unless they free win 7 or come out with a win 11 that does not spy on people I'll be forced to stop using the systems that can't run linux, and will have to consider apple hardware or linux compatible only things in the future.
• JohnClark1337 7y ago
  I'm just wondering what hilarious thing the guys at Microsoft will put on those HDD's and mail back. The Source code to Hover maybe?