Folks had better hold onto their copies of Windows 7-10-11, back them up *(The ISO’s i mean), because they soon disappear from MS site in favor of the new OS- The only problem though will be that eventually the older OS’s will lose updates and be vulnerable- but for folks like me who dual boot with linux, and only use windows offline, it will be fine to use for years to come (Until new software refuses to work on anything but new windows-)
I have ‘Tiny 11’ (and tiny 10) ready to go on a thumbdrive- these are stripped of all or most MS nonsense- and optimized for best performance, but I’ll have to make new thumbdrives of them to be sure incase one drive poops the bed-
“Folks had better hold onto their copies of Windows 7-10-11, back them up *(The ISO’s i mean), because they soon disappear from MS site in favor of the new OS- The only problem though will be that eventually the older OS’s will lose updates and be vulnerable- but for folks like me who dual boot with linux, and only use windows offline, it will be fine to use for years to come (Until new software refuses to work on anything but new windows-)”
Windows 7 is perfectly safe to run, just don’t connect it to the Internet, ever. It isnt even safe to connect to your own intranet, because many viruses try to spread this way. I disable my network cards on these machines and just to be safe put the MAC address on the router blacklist.