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Home users don’t necessarily need an OS to be “in support”, especially if they are satisfied with their present apps and browser. The last big breakthrough was mainstream 64 bit OS (I don’t count the poorly supported Windows XP 64 bit)

7 posted on 11/24/2019 9:18:16 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (Between the parted pages and were pressed In love's hot, fevered iron Like a striped pair of pants)

It would be nice if people did upgrade and continue to get security updates... There’s millions of botnet computers out there and just about all of them are people still on Windows XP. The same thing will happen with 7.

Home users don’t necessarily need an OS to be “in support”, especially if they are satisfied with their present apps and browser.

Yes and no.

I recall with WinXP that my browser could not handle many of the newer videos and websites. That and a hard drive crash forced me to Win7.

I have noticed recently that some of the older browsers (Firefox ESR 52 and Comodo IceDragon 42) struggle with some graphic intensive websites. I figure HTML5 and similar newer coding will eventually make Win7 browsers unusable.

I have seen some notices that Adobe Flash dies in a couple of years. It will be interesting to see how that impacts Win7 browsers.