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I consider "in the grave" to be a feature. It means Microsoft isn't trying to pull the rug out from under me each night with updates.

• waste_monk 5y ago
  While that's true, you also aren't getting security updates - there have been 222 CVE score 7.0 or higher vulnerabilities for Windows 7 (all versions) assigned on or after the EOL date of 2020/01/14, some of which are rather nasty. While a couple of the most extreme ones did receive patches, the vast majority have not and a fully up to date Win7 system will be hugely vulnerable. Given that any form of internet connectivity exposes you to a highly adversarial environment, I would personally be very uncomfortable persisting with Win7 - all it takes is one drive-by browser vulnerability and the attacker has a whole host of working exploits that can be used to further compromise your workstation. I will not bother you further with the security aspect, but circling back to Python - your operating system does not exist in a vacuum, compatibility with Win 7 is actively degrading as it remains the same while Python and everything else continues to change, so it makes sense for them to prevent it being installed. That way the support community's time is not wasted even reading enough of a support issue to see that's on Win 7 and closing the issue - one or two in isolation would be tolerable, but in bulk even assigning or closing tickets would take a decent chunk of resources.