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btw last version on Windows7 is 109 so maybe millions of vulnerable installs out there there are 3rd party patches to install 120 on w7 but who would trust th

by ck2 3y ago

btw last version on Windows7 is 109 so maybe millions of vulnerable installs out there there are 3rd party patches to install 120 on w7 but who would trust them?

bee_rider 3y ago
Windows 7 is like 15 years old.
- toast0 3y ago
  Age is irrelevant. Market share is. The first search result [1] places Windows 7 at 3.34% of Windows marketshare currently, which is significant, IMHO, but your market may vary from whatever this statistic tracks. 8.1 at 1.66% and XP at 0.64% could be significant, too, depending on your market. If you're going to support 7, you may as well support 8 and 8.1 too because it may not be any more work. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/ https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...
  - Workaccount2 3y ago
    I have the great honor of not only commandeering a windows 7 laptop at work, but also a windows XP one.
    - thfuran 3y ago
      Can you yet get a laptop that fits XP all in cache? Edit: It looks like you could probably pull it off with some trimming and a sufficiently expensive Epyc, but I think you'll have to wait a few years for laptops to manage. Hopefully by then you can take XP out back and but it once and for all.
      - Workaccount2 3y ago
        It's used in an offline testing setup using a long forgotten serial interface scripting language. It's one of those "it works and there is no need to change it so we just leave it"
znkynz 3y ago
I would be a bit more worried about the last 3 years of no security updates from Microsoft, if you're still running Windows 7.
StressedDev 3y ago
Windows 7 is not secure if it is connected to a network because it no longer gets security patches. Anyone running Windows 7 on a network connected computer does not care about security and will get hacked.
- cesarb 3y ago
  > Anyone running Windows 7 on a network connected computer does not care about security and will get hacked. It's not so simple. If the Windows 7 computer is on a physical network with only trusted devices, and behind a firewall, and only running trusted programs, in most cases the only exposed attack surface is going to be the browser.

by ck2 3y ago

btw last version on Windows7 is 109 so maybe millions of vulnerable installs out there there are 3rd party patches to install 120 on w7 but who would trust them?

bee_rider 3y ago

Windows 7 is like 15 years old.

toast0 3y ago
Age is irrelevant. Market share is. The first search result [1] places Windows 7 at 3.34% of Windows marketshare currently, which is significant, IMHO, but your market may vary from whatever this statistic tracks. 8.1 at 1.66% and XP at 0.64% could be significant, too, depending on your market. If you're going to support 7, you may as well support 8 and 8.1 too because it may not be any more work. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/ https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...
- Workaccount2 3y ago
  I have the great honor of not only commandeering a windows 7 laptop at work, but also a windows XP one.
  - thfuran 3y ago
    Can you yet get a laptop that fits XP all in cache? Edit: It looks like you could probably pull it off with some trimming and a sufficiently expensive Epyc, but I think you'll have to wait a few years for laptops to manage. Hopefully by then you can take XP out back and but it once and for all.
    - Workaccount2 3y ago
      It's used in an offline testing setup using a long forgotten serial interface scripting language. It's one of those "it works and there is no need to change it so we just leave it"

znkynz 3y ago

I would be a bit more worried about the last 3 years of no security updates from Microsoft, if you're still running Windows 7.

StressedDev 3y ago

Windows 7 is not secure if it is connected to a network because it no longer gets security patches. Anyone running Windows 7 on a network connected computer does not care about security and will get hacked.

cesarb 3y ago
> Anyone running Windows 7 on a network connected computer does not care about security and will get hacked. It's not so simple. If the Windows 7 computer is on a physical network with only trusted devices, and behind a firewall, and only running trusted programs, in most cases the only exposed attack surface is going to be the browser.