Windows 7 End of Support

For me, the cure is worse than the disease. For the most part, I stopped updating Win7 years ago. Maybe a couple of critical updates, and certainly some hardware updates (likely accessible direct from the mfr anyway), but nothing bad has happened.


I use Malwarebytes, Firefox (and Tor if a site might be sketchy). I've updated my box at least a half-dozen times with Win7, including a couple of motherboard swaps. Office 2010 has everything I need for my business and is nag-free.


I've heard the all EOL gnashing of teeth and ululations before. Until an absolutely must-have program appears that won't function with 7, I'm completely unconcerned. Maybe in 2023 but that's an eon in tech-time. Nadella could be gone and subscription models dead by then.


We have reached the Age of Good Enough. Cell phones, cameras, computers, operating systems ... the lion's share is "good enough". Companies that grew fat on the churn of short product cycles are desperately seeking means of maintaining that profit margin. Not. Going. To. Happen.


Giants will fall.



Repent and reboot.

Brds7t7 said:

With MS updates, that's more of a blessing than a curse these days anyway!

The last one did break my machine, but I repaired the OS, so if I can afford to build a W10 Ent LTSC, then this one will be relegated to being a fancy TV. Only three months left to next year. No more updates, will I install.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Frankly, I don't give the north end of a southbound furry little rodent if ol' Chromedome (aka, Nutella) is gone or not. His replacement may be better or may be worse (my money would be on the latter). After all the nonsense coming from MS, I no longer will ever trust it and Win 7 is the last MS product I will ever use (I've already abandoned MS Office).

Lady Fitzgerald,

I write grants for teens/seniors (mainly) and work at a few different non-profits. I had use of a corporate install for MS Ofc 2010 and used it myself for years, but moved on to SoftMaker. As I am on the road a lot and plopping my seat into somebody else's computer (often), I have resorted to portableapps. A folder with everything I may need works for me on a USB stick, including SoftMaker 2018 as a portable app. I like that method so much, that I use it on my old Dell Latitude laptop at home too. No need for Office, besides which, all of the non-profits have heeded the siren song of Google Drive. Not my preference, but when in Rome. I gave up on evangelizing about SoftMaker or LibreOffice as that advice most often went into the circular file.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Frankly, I don't give the north end of a southbound furry little rodent if ol' Chromedome (aka, Nutella) is gone or not. His replacement may be better or may be worse (my money would be on the latter). After all the nonsense coming from MS, I no longer will ever trust it and Win 7 is the last MS product I will ever use (I've already abandoned MS Office).

The 'nonsense' is unlikely to change soon. Even though MS generates more revenue from the cloud than Windows and Office combined, when almost half your user-base is still using your 10-yr old product, the incentive to monetize them somehow, anyhow, is irresistible.

RoWin7 said:

Verizon owns Yahoo now, and AOL. I expect they'll both be disappearing soon.

I hope not, I have a very important 'fun' email associated with yahoo.ca if I had to go to gmail or another
not certain I could get an identical user name.