frankl1n Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Quote Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 7 on January 13, 2015, but extended support won't end until January 14, 2020. Quote If you continue to use Windows 7 after support has ended, your PC will still work, but it will become more less vulnerable to security risks and viruses fcuked up patches because you will no longer receive software updates, including security updates, from Microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Well, acoding o some, The actual end to the world and possibly the entire universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jramon2566 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 What will happen? Nothing. They will continue to use it as XP. If they're going to hack you they do it with any system you use (including Linux). Security depends on the user, not on the OS, even if it influences something. In my case I can not acquire a new computer, so I have to continue with my old laptop Soneview N1410 with windows 10 barely working. 😢 In fact I'm thinking of installing windows 95 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debebee Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Life goes on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Given how popular Windows 7 will still be then, I reckon Microsoft will cave in and still release some, maybe all security patches for it. If they don't, they'll get plenty of "feedback" from 7 users and the security industry. They'll still be making the patches for those who choose to pay for them, so it's not like they have to do anything extra other than release them to the world as well. The payers though will wonder why they should be paying for (free) public patches... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyy Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 I used Win XP from about 2000 to 2018 when I then changed to Win 7. Using Win XP I got a virus once...and that was at the very beginning of my time using a computer and was down to my own lack of experience when clicking unknown files. I'll be using Win 7 until I decide to upgrade...I refuse to be coerced by Microsoft into upgrading. When I begin to see that Win 10 has become acceptably stable then I might try it....but not while every patch Tuesday brings wailing and weeping for many users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Personally I have installed Windows 7 SP1 on all my computers up thru 7th generation Intel setups. I don't install any updates for it and I don't run any AV software. Instead I use Software Restriction Policies and some Powershell scripts that have proven to be immune to any malware. For those 8th Gen laptops I install LTSC with lots of tweaks and start menu change. I won't change any of my computers from Windows 7 since once Microsoft quits screwing with it it just becomes that much more secure and just one less source of 'malware' that I have to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 It will be like XP for like 4 years you be able to find 3rd party updates to software because Businesses that pay for extended support then after that you will only to be able too use outdated programs .After all most 98 windows users said they never use XP then they all switch to XP .Then XP users said they never use Windows 7 are now Windows 7 and Windows 10 users. . Now Windows 7 users say they will never use Windows 10 and LTSC and not even a real option for consumers it's only for Businesses . Using it at home is illegal .windows 7 only has a 30% percent desktop market share and all of Windows only have a 35.01% OS market-share . So Windows not even peoples 1st choice anymore Android is! It's up to Microsoft if they ever want to recover and going to make and OS for Consumers witch they say they are it's called Core OS. Nobody is buying windows no more but Businesses. Old Hardware dont last forever and it don't even last as long as the old stuff did and after Microsoft drops extended support for it ,3rd party devs will drop support for your favorite softwares witch if CORE OS never never does nothing it will be great for Linux and MAC it means more devs for our platforms that still get updates . If they dont do something soon they going to end up like Mac OS with a small marketshare . The bad thing about Mac OS it has no games like Windows and Android does so even Linux is a much better choice than it is if you want to play games they have over 2000 working native Windows games on Linux now. What OS you use has been irrelevant every since Android passed windows a few years ago . It's a Google World and Microsoft is just living in it . Tell someone makes something else consumers want to use it's going to stay that way too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.G.B. Spender Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Hopefully it will force everyone clinching to outdated software to update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rseiler Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 I have to wonder how the updates for paid extended support (for well beyond Jan 2020) are going to work. It's not like Windows Update is some locked-down thing behind a paywall. It's pretty open. Remember how easy it was to continue XP updates (at least for a while) after it went away? There was an embedded version of XP that officially was still receiving updates, and someone realized that a simple Registry change would open it for mainstream XP, too. It 'll be something like that. Or, worst case, sites will arise that contain the updates for manual download and installation. And I bet MS won't really care in either case, because they'll realize that 1) Only a tiny number of people know about it, and 2) These people are die-hard Win7 fans and aren't going to upgrade anyway, so it's better not to have their systems turned into attack vectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwa Piva Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Nothing will happen, the first 4/5 years. Only if you need new (special) hardware, it could become more and more difficult to get the drivers for a by then obsolete OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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