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I think you'll find that your employer will move to a newer OS more quickly. Windows 7 is already in extended support, and that ends in 2020. Microsoft is doi
by tallanvor 9y ago
I think you'll find that your employer will move to a newer OS more quickly. Windows 7 is already in extended support, and that ends in 2020. Microsoft is doing their best to reduce the need to support legacy products, so a custom support agreement for Windows 7 is going to be extremely expensive.
- cm2187 9y agoPerhaps, though given how long it took between the begining and end of the win7 roll out I am not convinced. But in any case any IT team starting a project for a few more years will not touch UWP since at least some of the users will be under Win7.
- e1ven 9y agoI've spoken with several companies that just finished transitioning to Windows 7 in the last year or so. For them, official support from MS is not a major factor in their decisions. Whether it should be or not is another matter, but in talking with them, availability of patches really doesn't move the needle as much as you'd expect.
- naikrovek 9y agoThen they have very little understanding of information security, I would say.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoConnecting a computer running an unsupported OS to the Internet is straight up negligence. You are basically asking to get hacked.