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With Windows 7 on its way out slowly, WinRT is becoming more palatable.
by adzm 7y ago
With Windows 7 on its way out slowly, WinRT is becoming more palatable.
- loeg 7y agoSlowly?! Hasn't Win7 been dead for years? > Latest release Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601) / February 22, 2011; 9 years ago > Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended on January 13, 2015. There is: > Extended support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020. But that is referring to very specific business contracts, not casual users pretending EOL never happened.
- ploxiln 7y agoCasual users still received updates for Windows 7 until January 14th, 2020. Businesses can get "Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU)" for a maximum of 3 years after January 14th, 2020. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4527878/faq-about-extended-security-updates-for-windows-7 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4527878/faq-about-e...
- badsectoracula 7y ago> Slowly?! Hasn't Win7 been dead for years? No. Microsoft wants to kill it, but... even just checking Steam's hardware survey (users of which are more likely to upgrade so chances are overall PC usage of Win7 is higher) there is a combined ~7% of users on Win7. With ~25M concurrent users the last 48 hours, that means there were more than 1.7M users running on Win7 just within the last two days. FWIW these numbers are a bit lower than 10 times the Linux numbers of all distros combined.