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>The saving grace for all of this is that computers running Windows 8 and up aren’t affected. Burying the lede? The implication here is that all unpatched Wind
by dTal 7y ago
>The saving grace for all of this is that computers running Windows 8 and up aren’t affected.
Burying the lede? The implication here is that all unpatched Windows 7 computers will be utterly pwned within 24-48 hours of that announcement - i.e. a week ago. That's way more serious than a Windows XP problem. Tons of people are still on Windows 7 - justifiably.
- ABeeSea 7y agoThere really isn’t a justifiable reason to use windows 7 anymore.
- thethirdone 7y agoThere absolutely is. A significant amount of software hasn't been updated to work on Windows 8/10. If you need a specific piece of software that only works on Windows 7, that is a perfectly justifiable reason. Windows 7 is only 10 years old at this point.
- 0815test 7y agoFor that matter, a significant amount of hardware hasn't been updated (or had updated support, rather) to work properly on anything newer than Windows XP! Linux has better support for some hardware than any Windows post-XP does.
- acqq 7y agoI still own perfectly functioning hardware... but functioning only if the Windows 7 is running on it. Nobody made newer drivers: Intel didn't and Microsoft didn't. And the hardware is surely nothing obscure: it's the Intel chips.