Thursday 14 May 2020

Windows 7 - still updating.

Are you still using Windows 7?  Many of us are, because it was one of the better iterations of the Windows OS.

Still being updated in May 2020.
The official line is that updates and support for Win 7 ended in December last year. Yet, it's been obvious for a while that there were minor OS updates coming through during 2020.

Overnight, a major update for Win 7 took place, taking over an hour to complete on my fairly fast quad core desktop.

Clearly, Win 7 is not yet dead.  No doubt this is driven by the need to avoid large organisational users, who update software only very rarely, falling victim to vulnerabilities that led to disasters such as the 'Wannacry' ransomware attack that crippled the National Health Service in the UK a few years ago.


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