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The other day I did a Windows 10 patching podcast with Karl Palachuk on the SMB community podcast. It was fun! (Now I know how Mary Jo Foley feels e
[See the full post at: Patch Lady – Windows 10 patching podcast]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
In spite of some passing Windows 7 unflattering comments (Oh, Dear!) and a concentration on Windows 10 patching, I found enough in the podcast to make it rather useful and a good way to spend half an hour listening to Susan and her interviewer. Particularly informative to me, the discussion on 0-day updates vs. phishing and which one is the thing to watch out for most, these days. (If you, gentle reader, wanted to know which one is that one, then go listen to Susan’s interview’s Podcast.)
Windows 7 Group B + macOS & Linux (mint)
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV
Yeah, the chatter about windows 7 i found to be mostly a load of old nonsense. There’s a reason why it still has a huge user base and it’s simply because it just works and is stable, we don’t want to be microsoft’s eternal beta testers and have a firehose of telemetry being pumped to redmond. How many times are we going to excuse microsoft for borking machines or randomly deleting files due to these feature updates? They’re getting desperate now, windows 10 adoption has fallen so far below their expectations that they have resorted to being a malware vendor to force it on to people’s machines and that talk about windows update being incredibly slow? That was all down to them, it never used to be like that before 10 came out.
But other than that there was some good advice!
Bio is off a bit
She writes the Patch Watch column for Brian Livingston’s Windows Secrets, and
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