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It's official: Microsoft confirms the end of Windows 7 and 8
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| Mike Moore
Posted on 01/10/2023 6:32:28 PM PST by TChad
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To: Fai Mao; All
Somebody should post a thread: Who on FR has the oldest working computer? :-)
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posted on
01/10/2023 7:47:32 PM PST
by
Paul R.
(You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
To: Paul R.
>
Even though Windows 7 is no longer supported, we've decided to continue to provide you with security updates for Microsoft 365 for the next 3 years, until January 2023. As you're aware, the operating system "Windows 7" and the application suite "Microsoft 365" (nee "Office 365") are completely separate entities. Of course there's nothing stopping a software vendor from continuing to support their application on OSes that are past EOL. But that is entirely different from offering support for the OS.
That said, if you had deep pockets and a large Volume License contract with Microsoft, you could continue to get security updates for Win7 past the Jan 2020 EOL date, but that option was only available to very large corporate accounts, and was extremely costly.
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posted on
01/10/2023 7:48:00 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
To: dayglored
End-Of-Life for Windows 7 was actually three years ago, January 2020. But who’s counting? It was pushed back because of COVID...
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posted on
01/10/2023 7:49:40 PM PST
by
null and void
(LibWhacker ~ "Thank goodness for bureaucrats." (taken grossly out of context by nully...))
To: CatOwner
I’m partially there and would be 100% if I could ever get a bead on network file sharing in Linux. My current Windows private network works like a champ but my efforts to create a Linux file server that functions even 10% as reliably have all failed.
Until then I have to use SD cards to move files between my Linux internet browser laptops and my Windows file server.
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posted on
01/10/2023 7:53:08 PM PST
by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
To: Paul R.
>
Somebody should post a thread: Who on FR has the oldest working computer? :-) I have an original 1976 MOS Technology 6502-based "KIM-1" that still runs fine.
So unless somebody has a working ALTAIR 8800, I think I've got a winner. :-)
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posted on
01/10/2023 7:53:58 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
To: null and void
>>
End-Of-Life for Windows 7 was actually three years ago, January 2020. But who’s counting? > It was pushed back because of COVID...
Not sure whether you're being serious... do you have a link for that claim? I don't recall that.
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posted on
01/10/2023 7:57:08 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
To: Paul R.
Define “working” LoL.
I have an Osborne C/PM that dates to 1983 and a Compaq luggable that dates to 1984.
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posted on
01/10/2023 7:57:22 PM PST
by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
To: Revel
Win 7 was the last MS OS I will ever own. I found Win 7 had a USB device detection bug where a flatbed scanner would work on one port but not another.
Then the installed a "Security Update" (that was actually prepping the OS for upgrade to ver 10) which caused Corel Video Studio to not work. I turned off all updates because of that, but decided a non updated OS wasn't a great idea either.
So, I wiped the hard drive and installed Linux Mint 17, which was the current version then. Now the only Windows only application I use is Family Tree Maker, which I run in a Win 7 virtual machine. That's a lot of storage for one program, but nothing I can do about that at this time.
To: dayglored
Mine is nearly 70 years old. It’s slowed down a bit and has some memory problems...
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posted on
01/10/2023 7:58:38 PM PST
by
null and void
(LibWhacker ~ "Thank goodness for bureaucrats." (taken grossly out of context by nully...))
To: dayglored
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posted on
01/10/2023 7:59:10 PM PST
by
null and void
(LibWhacker ~ "Thank goodness for bureaucrats." (taken grossly out of context by nully...))
To: TChad
I still have my free TShirt from the Windows 7 launch party I went to. 2009 I think. I wore it yesterday for good luck.
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posted on
01/10/2023 8:00:49 PM PST
by
dennisw
("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
To: null and void
>
Mine is nearly 70 years old. It’s slowed down a bit and has some memory problems... I hear ya there, FRiend. Although not well, my audio input devices are shot from years of loud music. :-)
I turn 71 in a week, and it's getting noticeable. Sigh.
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posted on
01/10/2023 8:05:05 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
To: Paul R.
I had a Frankenstein machine on Guam. I made it from parts of computers left by dumpsters when people.threw them away. It cost me nothing. I ran Unbuntu on it at first but managed get an old Windows 8 disk from somebody who didn’t want it so I could run some old games on it.
I used a motherboard with burned out onboard graphics and added a video card from another computer without a power supply but that had an older motherboard. I used it to access the internet. On a non smart TV.
It actually worked.well for simple stuff
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posted on
01/10/2023 8:18:31 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
To: Gay State Conservative
I have had Windows 2.0, 2.1/286, 3.1, 3.11 WFW, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98se, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP, Windows XP 64, Windows 7, Windows 10.
Windows 2000 Pro was my favorite.
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posted on
01/10/2023 8:19:21 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
To: TChad
Do you know which ones those are?
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posted on
01/10/2023 8:20:17 PM PST
by
GOPJ
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
To: TChad
"Anyone using the software will now be at risk of cyberattacks from criminals exploiting current and future security flaws and vulnerabilities, ..." Horse puckey and scare-mongering. There are still more than 25 million Windows XP PCs visible on the Internet (a little more than 1% of all users).
Time has proved that MS is incapable of killing off its own OSes. What does finally kill them is the withdrawal of supporting technologies, particularly browsers, Java, and (formerly) Shockwave.
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posted on
01/10/2023 8:20:55 PM PST
by
Paal Gulli
(The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch and do nothing.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Windows 7 is my favorite too. I have no idea why microsoft can’t just charge us a monthly fee.
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posted on
01/10/2023 8:22:16 PM PST
by
GOPJ
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
To: KarlInOhio
Kind of like leaving two Cleveland Browns' tickets on your dashboard.
You are still at risk if a fan of the opponent happens upon them.
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posted on
01/10/2023 8:24:25 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
To: dayglored
Yes windows RT.
Windows for ARM.
I might even have win2k running on Alpha in a closet somewhere.
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posted on
01/10/2023 8:26:07 PM PST
by
algore
To: Paal Gulli
Time has proved that MS is incapable of killing off its own OSes. What does finally kill them is the withdrawal of supporting technologies, particularly browsers, Java, and (formerly) Shockwave.
It took Apple 10 years to kill off Flash, and they REALLY tried. Of course, QuickTime itself was its own special world of hurt.
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posted on
01/10/2023 8:26:21 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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