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• PC always boots into “Manufacturing Mode”

  Posted on October 7, 2019 at 01:05 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  LANGALIST

  By Fred Langa

  A simple hard-drive upgrade triggered an unusual error. Worse, the problem defies common fixes and can’t be corrected from within desktop Windows.

  Plus: The clock on Windows 7’s formal end of life is now down to fewer than 100 days!

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.36.0 (2019-10-07).

  LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Manufacturing Mode, Upgrading to Windows 10, Windows 7 end of life

• New report from Forescout says 71% of medical industry PCs will still be running Win7 in January

  Posted on May 17, 2019 at 07:48 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Interesting report from the people at Forescout:

  Within our data sample… 71% of devices will be running unsupported Windows operating systems by January 14, 2020.

  “Unsupported operating systems” includes Windows 7, Server 2008, and earlier.

  The study revealed that 40% of deployments had more than 20 different operating systems on their medical VLANs.

  They were looking at a very large sample of very large installations:

  Source data for this report came from the Forescout Device Cloud, a repository of host and network information for more than 8 million devices, making it one of the largest crowdsourced device repositories. For this study, researchers limited Device Cloud analysis to 75 healthcare deployments with over 10,000 virtual local area networks (VLANs) and 1.5 million devices. Since the primary focus of the report is the status of medical devices, many of the results are based on analysis of more than 1,500 medical VLANs with 430,000 devices.

  No, Windows 7 is not going away any time soon. The medical industry has an enormous problem. As do many of us.

  Windows News Windows 7 end of life

• Windows 7 isn’t going away, but it’ll cost more

  Posted on October 28, 2014 at 18:03 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Don’t believe the Chicken Little headlines and advertising. 

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

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