I still have a Win 7 machine, an XP Pro Notebook, a Dual Boot Win 10 1803/Win 8 Pro Desktop, and a Win 10 1703 Laptop. Each have a role to play.

For me this incessant update business is a bane of my life. After every update something no longer works.

Security updates alone are fine. Make all feature updates entirely optional, as I said - they're the bane of my life.

I find updates on any platform are an extreme annoyance, but, yes, security is important.
Some of the updates have crippled the machine for a while, significantly reducing productivity, resulting in time spend trying to remove and disable bloatware. For example, I don't know why games keep appearing on my machine (well, I do know why), especially as I don't play games on a computer.

Plus, co-incidentally, Win 10 mobile ... Both my 950 and 950XL received their "last" updates last night, everything's working fine EXCEPT WhatsApp has withdrawn support and no longer works whatsoever yet their fast-rising competitor, Telegram, does.

What are these phones worth? The best I have found is £25 therefore I won't be letting mine go, nor my 930 nor my 1520, pointless, great cheap cameras to have in reserve.

Since I was aware of this coming I had already set-up the companies with iPhones, we tried Androids and, to be honest, no one liked them at all. Having had a few monthe with Apple now they're ok, 'tis a pity they can't meld IOS and Win 10 !

chuckles ... my win 7 machine has barfed YOU ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED three times... had to go back through the updates to find the offending update that introduced this useless piece of hysteria ... once removed the noise disappeared. (Had to do it since, for some reason, the "do not show me this again" did not work).

YMMV

.... and here we are on January 19 and the update servers are still online ... by that I mean that I've sort of got a thing for collecting and saving old EOL operating systems ... I'm currently doing with Windows 7 the same as I've done for XP and 98/98SE ...

Yesterday I pulled an ancient Gigabyte GA-60XT motherboard off the shelf (circa 2001 *very low end by today's standards), hooked up a power plant and a 40GB IDE HD to it, tossed in a bit of RAM and a wireless card, and installed Windows 7, activated it, and here I am now, pulling updates for it from Microsoft. (I activated it on Jan 18, and it's updating now on Jan 19)

When all is said and done, Windows 7 will find it's place on the shelf right beside all of the other perfectly good operating systems that Microsoft has built over the years.

I installed Win 7 on an old Dell last year. To my disappointment it doesn't recognise my STB at 10.1.1.251 on the LAN to download video.