Posted on 09/20/2019 11:22:47 AM PDT by bgill
Legitimate question. If Microsoft will be providing free security updates for government election entities through the 2020 election cycle, is there any reason the general public shouldn’t get the same extension? Or would that involve some technical problems of which I am unaware?
“Don’t think I want to go to Win10.”
Agree. Win 10 is for kids whose entire world is a cell phone. I’m finally transitioning to Linux. Running Mint on a laptop as a test, will put Mint on the Desktop soon.
Recommend the same for everyone.
What could go wrong?
Here’s an idea.
Put that table and your cellphone next to speaker running a sermon from a fiery preacher of God.
Or some serious Gospel music. That ought to get the spies’ undies into a wad.
Years ago, I posted a list of states that were outsourcing theirs to other countries. I recall Texas was using Spain. That about blew me over.
At one point during the obamy admin, Houston’s machines burned up in the warehouse. I never heard the cause of the fire but guess it was chalked up to the blanket electrical.
Mr. b had a vote flip on him once. It took weeks before the local Republican office got back to him on it saying everything was ok. Now that Texas has eliminated voting a straight ticket, it’ll be harder to check your votes and many people won’t bother to take the time. Of course, no one has any idea what their votes might be once they hit the finish button.
I had a 10 and hated it. Would force myself to use it a few days and then had to box it up before I did an Elvis on it. A few months later, I’d try it again and again it’d go back into the box. Hubby’s Linux died so he hooked up the 10 and curses it every day.
Had to take my 7 into the shop a couple weeks ago over an update that messed it up. Thankfully, as I pulled into the parking lot, it got itself right - sort of. It still wiped out my search engines and Word. The repair guy said everyone hates 10 and are trying to keep their 7s chugging along. He said not to bother with any more 7 updates because of so many problems.
My tin foil hat has always been suspicious the updates were Big Brother installing spyware.
When obamy was first elected, my tagline had a big howdy to the spies. Every time I’d comment on the Kenyan, the computer would magically freeze.
“I had a 10 and hated it.”
Ditto. Gave mine to DH and, like your hubby, he curses at it every day. He also had to resort to renting MS Office 365 or whatever it is.
I found a refurbished Windows 7 on Amazon for around $300 from a vendor out of Tampa. They had even bumped it up to 1T. Knock on wood, but it has been perfect for three years now. (I believe there still can be many found for sale on Amazon.) My MS Office 2003 disk is one of my most cherished possessions, and I installed it on the Win 7 laptop. Happy!
I guess there’ll be no support for 7 in about 6 months, which is OK.
I’m staying w/ Win-7 Pro x64; screw Win-10.
LOL - yikes!
“In the “Western Center for Journalism – Informing and Equipping Americans Who Love Freedom,” there was an interesting article titled; “Spanish Company Will “Count” American Votes Overseas In November,” published on April 10, 2012, By Doug Book which also noted that the Spanish Company which got the contract through a bid has some interesting issues behind it, namely;
“SCYTL CEO Pere Valles is a socialist who donated heavily to the 2008 Obama campaign and lived in Chicago during Obama’s time as Illinois State Senator,” and other shocking revelations show that George Soros has a stake in the company as well.”
http://american-voter.org/outsourcing-to-spain-to-count-us-votes/
...but...
Yes, that’s a good one.
Do you remember the guy walking down the street and all of the Obama posters are looking at him?
Silly you! They don’t use XP for something as important as voting.
XP is for use in ATM machines.
:)
Nope, I don’t. Sorry.
Real voting machines are clients running Windows and are identifiable as such by Microsoft’s servers, if they go to the internet for updates. Likewise, if the client machines update from a locally-hosted WSUS server.
The general public’s home/business client machines cannot identify as voting machines. So they’re out of luck.
The reason behind the cutoff in Jan 2020 is simply that Microsoft wants everybody on Windows 10. Period, end of story. There’s no technical reason behind the cutoff — because in fact, Microsoft is still going to be producing the security updates for Windows 7 for years, but available only to large-volume business customers, at a high price that increases with time (look it up).
great i feel so safe now and that microsquish would never do anything shady to our voting systems.
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