Skybird
01-19-17, 09:37 AM
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3159446/microsoft-windows/microsoft-yanks-post-urging-windows-7-users-to-get-windows-10-for-a-secure-and-modern-it.html
I had to giggle when reading "Clearly, organizations that pay for Enterprise E3 or E5 licenses, and have the staff necessary to implement and maintain the advanced security packages (...)". - Too many private users and small business owners out there who found themselves being left in the porked update rain of whcih W10 has introduced too many already. All financial losses they had due to broken systems on a working day were at their expenses, of course - not Microsoft's.
Those of you who want to still trust in updates for W7, you will get "security updates" - of which not all necessarily must be about your security ;) - until some time in 2020.
Feel free after that time to continue without updates for soem more years to come, with the needed caution and self-limitation in online use, of course. I do it since over one year this way already.
The biggest threat to W7 users is that newer hardware in a new system you buy, new Intel and nVidia chips, may have blocked driver support for W7, following pressure by Microsoft that hopes to get W7 users this way into W10, by force. Advise is to inform yourself before you buy and maybe pass on the newest, latest hardware. Often one generation-older hardware still can fully fulfill your needs. And you save money this way, too. After having bought a second system (laptop) with Linux for all non-gaming things, I plan to get a sysetm replacement for gaming later this year, as reserve for my current one which now is several years old already. One day it will break down, of course. Possible that I even will buy a second gfx card that day as well, and keep it in reserve. Preferrably one that still allows to run it with an older nVidia driver that does not force you to have nVidia experience running all the time in the background. While shadowplay worked nicely, when I tested it, my HD was spinning every second all day long with Experience on, and nVidia also has gone into the sniffing business with its policy changes over its gfx drivers.
Short before christmas I learned from somebody who knows this kind of stuff for professional reasons that not just the Russian KGB, but the German BND as well has started to buy every mechanical typewriter they could find. :)
I had to giggle when reading "Clearly, organizations that pay for Enterprise E3 or E5 licenses, and have the staff necessary to implement and maintain the advanced security packages (...)". - Too many private users and small business owners out there who found themselves being left in the porked update rain of whcih W10 has introduced too many already. All financial losses they had due to broken systems on a working day were at their expenses, of course - not Microsoft's.
Those of you who want to still trust in updates for W7, you will get "security updates" - of which not all necessarily must be about your security ;) - until some time in 2020.
Feel free after that time to continue without updates for soem more years to come, with the needed caution and self-limitation in online use, of course. I do it since over one year this way already.
The biggest threat to W7 users is that newer hardware in a new system you buy, new Intel and nVidia chips, may have blocked driver support for W7, following pressure by Microsoft that hopes to get W7 users this way into W10, by force. Advise is to inform yourself before you buy and maybe pass on the newest, latest hardware. Often one generation-older hardware still can fully fulfill your needs. And you save money this way, too. After having bought a second system (laptop) with Linux for all non-gaming things, I plan to get a sysetm replacement for gaming later this year, as reserve for my current one which now is several years old already. One day it will break down, of course. Possible that I even will buy a second gfx card that day as well, and keep it in reserve. Preferrably one that still allows to run it with an older nVidia driver that does not force you to have nVidia experience running all the time in the background. While shadowplay worked nicely, when I tested it, my HD was spinning every second all day long with Experience on, and nVidia also has gone into the sniffing business with its policy changes over its gfx drivers.
Short before christmas I learned from somebody who knows this kind of stuff for professional reasons that not just the Russian KGB, but the German BND as well has started to buy every mechanical typewriter they could find. :)