>Microsoft did everything in its power to get user to take advantage of the free update to Windows 10. It even nagged and fooled people in order to get them on-board before it was too late. This didn’t exactly go over well with those who wanted to stick with their old, reliable version of Windows. Microsoft is now calling out anyone who passed on the update and still using Windows 7, especially those in an enterprise setting. It says that operating system is outdated, and even with patches, it’s not secure enough.
if a firm cared about security they would use a locked down flavor of linux.
Cooper Baker
>probl W (0
behold the power of Windows
Carter Watson
I'm going to use windows 7 until the end of days unless RYZEN is hopelessly broken on it
Aaron Perez
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Levi Scott
I'm sticking to W7 until I get my second GPU and use Linux for everything and my botched russian repatch version of a pirated W7 for games only.
Cameron Ramirez
It's probably pretty insecure at this point.
BECAUSE YOU MADE UPDATES NOT FUCKING TRUSTWORTHY
Camden Cook
MICROKEKS BTFO HAHAHA
Julian Allen
>posts windows 10 screenshot to bitch about Windows 7
Andrew Phillips
better go catch it lol
Camden Young
>Not using 8.1
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills or something but 8.1 Pro has been excellent for me. Super stable, no telemetry, and it was easy to set all the updates and various things to fully manual control.
Jayden Wilson
Of course it's true. Protip: win10 is even worse in that regard. Love how the employment material we were presented when our company was bought by M$ was all about how M$ can do no wrong and only cares about the users and does everything in their power to listen to what they want.
Aiden Bennett
If you have an integrated gpu, just do vga passthrough. Easy as shit and just werks as long as you don't follow any online guides.
Connor Jackson
Why doesn't MS still give the option to downgrade to 10 then?
I can't get over how MS tried to force 10 on fucking enterprise computers with several different patches so blocking one wasn't enough. And If I click the x it means cancel not OK you shits.
Luke Gomez
>tfw using 8.1 + Start8 Tried going back to 7 before. The lack of good multi-monitor support such as having a taskbar and having different wallpapers on each monitor without the need for additional software. Not being able to mount an ISO natively sucks. The task manager isn't as good (in my opinion anyway). Not to mention I always had weird issues where windows and programs would stutter on one display but not the other, typically when maximizing them. This happened on different computers I've had multi-monitor setups for, including my lab computer in the classroom when I was still in college. Tried Windows 10, and I just cannot like it. There's so many things wrong with it. The UI looks gross and is inconsistent as fuck. Not being able to pick and choose which updates you want sucks since you're forced to download every one of them. The shit it wants to do in the background is stupidly unnecessary. Not to mention it downloads fucking Candy Crush and Twitter and shit through Windows Update automatically, and gave us shit when I was doing my mandatory internship semester and we were rolling out Windows 10 to all of the computers on site. It's a joke of an OS.
Windows 8.1 is godly. Never ran into any issues with it.
Isaac Morgan
Hello shill.
Brandon Green
TAKE BACK YOUR FREEDOM
UPGRADE FROM WINDOWS
Jordan Watson
I got sick of filtering updates and playing games with the Pajeets, so I switched from Windows 7 to Ubuntu with XFCE. Works fine for everything I need it for except Adobe software, but I have a hackintosh for that.
James Thomas
>caring about the security of a game-console OS
Jonathan Anderson
Fuck I laughed more than I should have.
Josiah Turner
lal
Connor Collins
>we can't write an OS that's remotely safe >Please keep supporting us by buying the next one.
If I were concerned I'd just move to Linux. And I already am.
Lucas Baker
Videogames is the only thing keeping windows around. And they keep treating videogames so poorly they're running away (steam OS, opengl, the list of biasing against MS is large).
I'm starting to think the end might be coming within the next ten years. And I think MS is gonna fight some. They've already done .net core.
Software might actually be getting better.
Carter Campbell
>Microsoft playing on FUD to get more people into botnet
And the text is clear in point that MS should not phase out EMET since it makes Win 10 MUCH more safe...
Chase Baker
>I think we all know it's all a ploy to get everyone from 7 to 10, but still gotta wonder if there is a kernel of truth in all of this There's no way of knowing, really. It's a proprietary OS after all and the best you can do is to assume that anything actually gets patched.
Jonathan Peterson
Maybe someone should compliment it to help with it's insecurities.
>There's no way of knowing, really. There is. It's called Microsoft fucked up again.
Jordan Long
neat, so win7+emet is almost as dangerously insecure as windows 10 out of the box
Landon Thompson
Fuck you I won't upgrade from my win7 ultimate 64bit. I'm rather cozy with it.
Kayden Kelly
So far away
Josiah Russell
At some point in the near future there's going to be an exploit that appears that will target Windows 7 specifically, potentially affecting Windows 8/8.1 to some degrees, and it will wreak havoc on the Windows 7 platform and of course there won't be anything that can be done about it because Microsoft says there's nothing that can be done about it at the time it happens.
Of course, that's because Microsoft will be the one responsible for this exploit when it happens but obviously it'll be disseminated from some "unknown source" at the end of a very long chain of hops that will never be fully traced back to the source itself aka Microsoft.
They know more about Windows 7/8/8.1 than anyone else ever possibly could and they are the ones that will fuck it up when this happens.
They already fucked up Windows 7/8/8.1 by frustrating users with the bullshit Windows Updates taking forever, but this next step will basically be intended - in every manner of the word - to kill off using Windows 7, period.
Screenshot this post for the future, lads, 'cause it's a reckoning come 'a calling soon, very soon indeed.
Colton White
Microsoft is too inflexible for this.
Jose Flores
What of I never do windows update?
Carter Diaz
How do you think most exploits happen? They happen because someone passes on the necessary info to make it happen, that's how.
Someone at Microsoft will pass on the necessary info to someone outside Microsoft aka "some kid in a fucking basement working as an independent contractor doing coding work on a free-agent basis..." and voila, there it is.
How do you think most major virus shit happens? Same way. If you were to look back over time at Symantec's P&E statements you'd see a near perfect envelope match of major exploit outbreaks at the point in time where they needed a boost in sales to help curtail hitting red ink.
It's right there in the data, staring people in the face if they're willing to go looking for it. Companies hiring outside independent contractors to do such things and keep it hush-hush is nothing new, it's been a regular practice for many decades now and this is absolutely no different.
Pay attention, son, you're missing out on how the world really works.
Aaron Thomas
You are mistaken.
Jace Fisher
Security through obscurity isn't true security once people start jumping on the bandwagon you're hiding behind.
Chase White
If you were looking for true security you wouldn't be connected to the Internet, for a start.
Colton Wright
I can't handle all of these red pills
Camden Williams
Nice FUD, micro$hit.
Nathaniel Morales
Keeping that in mind, the correct response would be - it was.
Mason Young
That'd make sense in a world where all AV solutions costs money, but there are free products out there that beats out shit like kaspersky nod32 and such.
But fuck AVG, seriously. Fuck em to eternity and back.
Hunter Reed
I'm not able to convince my uncle to use a linux distro because the shit that he does requires certain software, and no current linux distro is trouble free enough that I won't get a call in more than a month.
Aiden Long
Oh well, back to XP then.
Jack Jones
>there are free products out there that beats out shit like kaspersky nod32 and such.
such as?
Nolan Stewart
But I liked AVG ;_;
Levi Mitchell
COMMON SENSE 2009+™
Andrew Cook
>"protect your computer from malware by installing malware"
no thanks, microsoft
Nathan Miller
more like W8 to upgrade lol
Nathan Perez
Windows 7 supports ASLR natively
Jeremiah Bennett
fuck u donald
Landon Nguyen
The biggest fucking security risk are their own shitty updates. Fuck Microshit at this point, I'm keeping my 7 until we get hit with a fucking EMP.
Parker Sanchez
You dense motherfuckers. Maybe research to the end of the quote to get context. He is saying it is insecure tomorrow.
Full quote: "Windows 7 comes slowly into the years. Today, it does not meet the requirements of modern technology, nor the high security requirements of IT departments, "said Markus Nitschke, Head of Windows at Microsoft Deutschland. "As early as in Windows XP, we saw that companies should take early steps to avoid future risks or costs."
Translation: "Buy wangblows 10, fags, we need money."
Jose Robinson
Oh I see it was Microsoft that allowed the Russians to hack the election. Fuck me man, I thought I knew everything there was to know.
Chase Fisher
I wonder why
Jaxon Lewis
Driving a car is dangerously insecure, except for those who know how to utilize it.
Matthew Lopez
> Microsoft is now calling out anyone who passed on the update and still using Windows 7 Why are people always getting "called out" in nu-internet journalism? Why does a tech website's prose need to read like a fucking Jezebel article?
Oliver Thomas
>Lincucks 2%
I wonder why
John Ward
Should I use ESET Internet Security with EMET?
Charles Collins
>"""advantage"""
Isaac Murphy
I'd kill to have 2% of Gates' wealth.
William Anderson
how do they know all these numbers?
Daniel Bennett
Licensing and updates I imagine. I'm fairly certain there are more Linux installations on hardware than what is commonly shown as they may run multiple VM's of Windows which kind of ironic.
David Jenkins
Oh and I'm sure MS counts thin clients.
Gavin Cook
Most people overestimate their driving skills.
Serious question though, pic related on this board of someone showing off his botnet army and noticed no Win10 (old pic maybe)
Is Win10 less compromisable from external threats than Win7?
Eli Bailey
It's from 2014 based from the day. Obviously no Win 10 and 8.1 was recently released back then.
Anthony Smith
No Win10 isn't really any safer OOTB than Win7. The botnets that are so rampant these days is because of Google and Android. They keep shoving it into everything they can even toasters and it's running Gingerbread (maybe older) or some shit. Companies aren't going to keep updates rolling for security patches on a twenty dollar toaster or a five hundred dollar TV at wally world.
Matthew Edwards
Thx for the reply. I'm running a torrented custom fork all in one package with a genuine key, I'm aware of the risk but it's been audited sufficiently to be closed enough as far as win snooping goes on Win7.
I'm seeing this as laundry, everyone has some phantom profile on a global database and Windows just washing their population to single out non-adopters and cluster them even more until everyone is "on file". These threats are inner implosions in a way.
Carson Morgan
I'm still using 8.1 after trying 10 for a few months. Comfy as fuck desu, though it kind of sucks that I have to install a custom start menu just to make it usable (not that that really matters because I would have anyway for ricing)
Austin Robinson
Windows 7 is a way of life!
Samuel Nguyen
>but still gotta wonder if there is a kernel of truth
Of course there's truth in it. It's not exactly a secret that Windows is crap and insecure as fuck. Always has been, always will be. The real question here is why the fuck does MS think that telling it's customers that their OS is too insecure to use is a good idea? Am I supposed to feel reassured because MS acknowledges what I already know, and incidentally would like me to give their new version a chance, because this time they are somehow going to get it right? They always claim the new version of Windows is the most secure ever, and yet it never takes long for someone to start uncovering gaping security holes in it, that they will take their sweet ass time fixing, provided that they ever bother at all.
Austin Sanders
but botnet 10/10 has DIRECT X 12!
Wyatt Brooks
Your main concern is with your web browser. Block ads, plugins should be disabled by default or just removed if possible, third party frames should be blocked by default, on windows you should block downloadable fonts, lastly if you can handle the additional effort required block third party scripts by default and only unblock what you need.
Leo Allen
Windows 7 is as secure as Windows 10
Samuel Young
anyone has installed win 7 on kaby lake?
Oliver Brooks
Thanks, but that sounds like it'll break alot of sites in doing so and I have couple of plugins that I really need. But as to EMET I take it as a no?
Logan Thomas
Plugins are not extensions. Plugins are separate applications, when you come accross a website that uses a plugin it asks your web browser if that plugin exists and if it does the web browser exposes it to the website. You probably only have one (flash) if you even have any of them. Disable those by default, firefox and chromium have a "click to play" mode for plugins which disables them by default but you can click on them to still allow them to run when they're needed.
ESET should work. As long as your AV software does not crash when EMET is enabled it will work with it.
Lincoln Cooper
Thank you!
Isaac Russell
Ayyyyy
Charles Hughes
MFW I don't have VT-d and can't do this
Ryder Perry
what is EMET?
Easton Allen
>10, developed by the same people as 7 is somehow magically secure
Connor Gutierrez
>EMET Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a freeware security toolkit for Microsoft Windows. It provides a unified interface to enable and fine-tune Windows security features. It can be used as an extra layer of defense against malware attacks, after the firewall and before antivirus software.
>Kaby Lake doesn't support Win7 Windows 7 doesn't support Kaby Lake, you mean.
And it's still AMD64 CPU, so it should work just fine(unless MS is deliberately going out of their way to stop any "non-supported" CPUs from working), only Kaby Lake specific features won't work.
Luis Harris
if people want access to your machine they will get it. "updating to win10 to fix a problem" isn't an actual fix.
Cameron Lewis
Scary.
Lincoln Walker
Intel won't offer driver support.
James Cook
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Thomas Roberts
But it has nothing to do with Intel. MS is refusing to add support to their kernel because they're doing everything they can to force their spyware on people, I'm willing to bet that Intel would be all too glad to add support for their products in the most popular operating system if they could.
Hunter Kelly
I'm staying on 7 but will 8.1 be a viable option down the road?
Henry Gonzalez
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Jacob Diaz
Real question here, If I'm running Windows 7 and primarily play games on my computer. Is Windows 10 a good upgrade at all? Primarily I'm iffy because of partial tinfoil hat stuff but I'm also just kinda not sure if DX12 is worth it.
Adrian Adams
Suck dick and install Linux
Grayson Bennett
i doubt it's true considering they have the same kernel and both still receive """"security"""" updates.
Brody Baker
A lot of games I play aren't really linux-friendly and I'm shit at understanding linux. Maybe once I get a laptop too I'll have linux on it.
