• Windows 7 is unfit for business? Yeah, sure.

    Posted on January 17, 2017 at 10:25 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Here’s my contribution to fake news. You’ve read the headline. This is what you haven’t read.

    Late last week, the hardware-leaning site Myce published a translation of a Microsoft Germany PR release that says (via Google translate):

    Microsoft Deutschland recommends timely changeover to Windows 10 for a secure and modern IT… One of the most successful operating systems from Microsoft is gradually approaching the end of its life cycle : the extended support of Windows 7 will be completed in three years. This means for all customers with Windows 7 PCs that from January 14, 2020 there will be no security updates, updates and no technical support from Microsoft. .. it provides for higher operating costs – for example, maintenance, lost working time due to increased malware attacks, or even increased support requests. At the same time, many hardware manufacturers no longer provide drivers for Windows 7, which means that modern peripherals such as printers are no longer recognized.

    We’ve heard all of that before, and it isn’t any more true now than it was a year ago.

    Windows 10 has its benefits. I use it all day, every day, and I’ve written two 1,000-page books on the topic. I’ve come to terms with its insistence on updating things when I least want them, and its ill-defined snooping proclivities. But Win10 isn’t for everybody, and scare tactics like this don’t do anything for Microsoft’s credibility.

    I think Win7 is going to be around a lot longer than the author of this PR release.

    UPDATE: Günter Born, whom many of you will recognize as a highly respected German blogger, has an excellent article you should read. He cites a CERT report that argues quite convincingly that Windows 7 + EMET is more secure than Win 10 without EMET. And the conclusions he draws are not the Win 10 happy-happy conclusions in the PR release.

    He also notes that Microsoft Germany has yanked the original PR report.

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