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Post by Polaris Seltzeris on Jan 15, 2020 1:15:57 GMT
Microsoft has officially stopped supporting Windows 7 today, meaning they will not be offering updates for it or general support anymore (although supposedly there will still be stability updates that you have to buy). Bigger concern than Microsoft dropping support for it is the application support when developers stop making applications work on it, which is what sealed Windows XP's fate (along with hardware support to a lesser extent, although in Windows 7's case technically everything still supports it unless you suck).
If you still want to use Windows 7 then use it, all it means is that you don't have updates which you probably don't care about anyways. Your shitty Pentium 4 processor won't catch fire and burn your house down just because you miss a Microsoft Windows update, security concerns are automatically invalid considering the amount of vulnerabilities that will permanently be in Windows 10 (and have to be).
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Post by Telesphoreo on Jan 15, 2020 4:34:47 GMT
i successfully migrated (all) 294 computers from windows 7 to windows 10 before the deadline
same with our 2008r2 server
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Post by StevenNL2000 on Jan 15, 2020 10:34:35 GMT
In lesser news, it is also the end-of-life date of Windows 10 Mobile, the last iteration of Windows Phone, which saddens absolutely no one.
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Post by xriqn on Jan 15, 2020 18:33:46 GMT
XP technically went out last year in terms of security, April 9th 2019: the day that POSReady 2009 security updates ceased. It was based on XP/Server 2003 so the security patches worked fine. 7 actually goes out of support next year in terms of security because POSReady 7 security updates will probably work on Windows 7, hopefully the regedit workaround pulls it off again.
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Post by Panaghioti on Feb 3, 2020 19:44:02 GMT
Microsoft has officially stopped supporting Windows 7 today, meaning they will not be offering updates for it or general support anymore (although supposedly there will still be stability updates that you have to buy). Bigger concern than Microsoft dropping support for it is the application support when developers stop making applications work on it, which is what sealed Windows XP's fate (along with hardware support to a lesser extent, although in Windows 7's case technically everything still supports it unless you suck). If you still want to use Windows 7 then use it, all it means is that you don't have updates which you probably don't care about anyways. Your shitty Pentium 4 processor won't catch fire and burn your house down just because you miss a Microsoft Windows update, security concerns are automatically invalid considering the amount of vulnerabilities that will permanently be in Windows 10 (and have to be). Yeah, you can use every windows you want that support games and softwares, even if Microsoft ended the example windows support. But I know from one of my friends that without updates, it’s possible to get viruses and other threats by other hackers...
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Post by Polaris Seltzeris on Feb 3, 2020 23:50:23 GMT
Microsoft has officially stopped supporting Windows 7 today, meaning they will not be offering updates for it or general support anymore (although supposedly there will still be stability updates that you have to buy). Bigger concern than Microsoft dropping support for it is the application support when developers stop making applications work on it, which is what sealed Windows XP's fate (along with hardware support to a lesser extent, although in Windows 7's case technically everything still supports it unless you suck). If you still want to use Windows 7 then use it, all it means is that you don't have updates which you probably don't care about anyways. Your shitty Pentium 4 processor won't catch fire and burn your house down just because you miss a Microsoft Windows update, security concerns are automatically invalid considering the amount of vulnerabilities that will permanently be in Windows 10 (and have to be). Yeah, you can use every windows you want that support games and softwares, even if Microsoft ended the example windows support. But I know from one of my friends that without updates, it’s possible to get viruses and other threats by other hackers... Boohoo, viruses don't appear out of nowhere.
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Post by _Windows on Feb 3, 2020 23:55:15 GMT
Yeah, you can use every windows you want that support games and softwares, even if Microsoft ended the example windows support. But I know from one of my friends that without updates, it’s possible to get viruses and other threats by other hackers... Boohoo, viruses don't appear out of nowhere. Also, most of what people refer to as "viruses" are actually either PUPs, or trojans. True viruses spread on their own, often by injecting malicious code into other programs. I have never encountered a virus on any modern system, only trojans and PUPs.
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Post by Polaris Seltzeris on Feb 4, 2020 0:04:12 GMT
Boohoo, viruses don't appear out of nowhere. Also, most of what people refer to as "viruses" are actually either PUPs, or trojans. True viruses spread on their own, often by injecting malicious code into other programs. I have never encountered a virus on any modern system, only trojans and PUPs. Unless you're pretty much deliberately using a computer improperly, or using ancient parts of Windows for networking purposes (which is why a lot of hospitals and offices get infected with trojans as opposed to regular users), it is very difficult to get a trojan without consensually downloading things without having a clue what you're downloading. Antiviruses won't help you.
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Post by _Windows on Feb 4, 2020 0:18:25 GMT
Also, most of what people refer to as "viruses" are actually either PUPs, or trojans. True viruses spread on their own, often by injecting malicious code into other programs. I have never encountered a virus on any modern system, only trojans and PUPs. Unless you're pretty much deliberately using a computer improperly, or using ancient parts of Windows for networking purposes (which is why a lot of hospitals and offices get infected with trojans as opposed to regular users), it is very difficult to get a trojan without consensually downloading things without having a clue what you're downloading. Antiviruses won't help you. ...or if you happen to be in 2005 downloading some random exes from LimeWire. <--- I was that person once. These days, I get trojans on purpose but never run them. I open them up with some executable analysis tools to see for example what Windows APIs the malware uses (can give you a decent idea of what its capable of).
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Post by Polaris Seltzeris on Feb 4, 2020 1:04:26 GMT
Unless you're pretty much deliberately using a computer improperly, or using ancient parts of Windows for networking purposes (which is why a lot of hospitals and offices get infected with trojans as opposed to regular users), it is very difficult to get a trojan without consensually downloading things without having a clue what you're downloading. Antiviruses won't help you. ...or if you happen to be in 2005 downloading some random exes from LimeWire. <--- I was that person once. These days, I get trojans on purpose but never run them. I open them up with some executable analysis tools to see for example what Windows APIs the malware uses (can give you a decent idea of what its capable of). Or doing literally anything on Internet Explorer 6 with ActiveX and Java.
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