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Three years after Windows 10 hit the ether, Windows 7 was still riding strong. Depending on how you count and whose numbers you believe, at the three-year mark, Windows 7 was still driving about half of all Windows computers in the world. That’s staying power, and it’s worthy of your respect.

Nonetheless, Windows 7 is clearly on the way down, and Windows 10 is on the way up. One big reason for that is that Microsoft has stopped providing updates and support for Windows 7. That’s as it should be, nostalgia notwithstanding.

Don’t be worried. Anything that works with Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 — and almost everything from Vista — will work in Windows 10. Programs, hardware, drivers, utilities — just about anything.

That’s a remarkable achievement, particularly because your Windows Desktop apps/Legacy programs (there’s that L word again) have to peacefully coexist with the WinRT API-based Windows/Universal/Modern/Metro apps.

Windows 10 does have lots going for it. Let me skip lightly through the major changes between Windows 7 and Windows 10.