Posted on 01/10/2023 6:32:28 PM PST by TChad
After years of anticipation, today officially marks the end of Windows 7 and 8/8.1, Microsoft has confirmed.
The aged operating systems will no longer receive Microsoft security updates from today, January 10, 2023, marking the end of their official lifespan.
Anyone using the software will now be at risk of cyberattacks from criminals exploiting current and future security flaws and vulnerabilities, and is urged to update to newer Windows versions - particularly Windows 11 - immediately in order to stay safe.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I’ve had/have W95,W98,XP,W7 and W10. Windows 7 is,by far,my favorite.
Just switched to Mac …not going back.
SCARY! If you have Windows 7 or earlier you should hide in your basement.
Microsoft stop supporting Windows ME at the end of 2003. You’re still using it with no support?
As soon as Windows 10 is EOL, I am switching to Linux for my everyday browsing and online account activities. Those Windows applications I do not have a suitable replacement for in Linux will remain on a Windows 10 computer that is not connected to the Internet. I am using my last Windows-based computer. I already have one Linux PC as a backup and one Linux laptop.
>> urged to update to newer Windows versions - particularly Windows 11
...that is to say, operating systems that Microsoft, aligned with the CIA and FBI, can force you to update whenever they feel like it, so that their SOVEREIGN spyware and malware can surveil your sorry butt and keep you in line. And, if necessary, plant “evidence” of “crimes” on your computer so they have a reason to pick you up and take you downtown.
Five years ago you’d have called me a conspiracy theorist for saying that. Heck, five years ago *I* would have called me a conspiracy theorist.
Not any more.
It won’t be long before they do the same thing with windows 10. There is one big problem though. Perfectly good and very fast computers(With GEN 7 Processors) are barred from ever having windows 11. The idiotic tax software companies stop allowing there programs to be installed on windows versions no longer supported by MS. And at some point even the browser companies do the same. You can’t even really watch you tube on windows XP anymore. So they force you out.
>> I am switching to Linux
I’m leaning that way. It’s just too hard right now because of work applications.
That’s why I keep a win11 net top for doing taxes. And it’s disconnected from everything when not doing that.
Beyond that, If I can’t use it on my win7 box or my Steam deck(Linux), I don’t need it.
I am thinking windows 7 was maybe the best.
>> SCARY! If you have Windows 7 or earlier you should hide in your basement.
You’d be surprised to learn how many Windows 7 computers exist in engineering and manufacturing applications... with engineers and techs “hiding [them] in the basement” from their own IT departments...
I had Windows 7 on my laptop and after a few years was told I needed to upgrade to Windows 10. So I did.
It wiped out some of the best programs that were in Win 7, and thinks I am in Denmark even though I am in the middle of the USA.
Now they are telling me I need to upgrade my old Win 8 to the new format, so I tried. It says it cannot run it on my computer.
> Microsoft stop supporting Windows ME at the end of 2003. You’re still using it with no support? <
I was just kidding about Windows Me. I’m now using Windows Vista. And my cell phone is an old flip phone. I’m not kidding there. How pathetic is that?
Linux here, for years now.
Never going back.
I have Windows 11. No problems. I like the fast startup.
Will something here fix your location issue?
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