Re:Microsoft criticized for changing the pop-up box encourag...
by hackney on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:38PM
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No shit. I helped a friend buy a fujitsu 17.3" dual core i5 laptop a few years back. I remember telling him "do not get windows 8". He has no clue about security, at all. So... he let it upgrade recently to 10 and lo and behold it stopped booting. Then he allowed his neighbor to install a desktop iso of a 32bit version of windows 7. I was amazed it even booted-lol. I had to reinstall windows 7 home premium using his key and now all is well with updates off and gwx, plus antibeacon installed.
Re:Microsoft criticized for changing the pop-up box encourag...
by ryanl0l on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @03:49PM
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So do you honestly believe that upgrading away from windows 7 somehow hurts security?
Re:Microsoft criticized for changing the pop-up box encourag...
by hackney on Thursday June 02, 2016 @07:08PM
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Not at all. Laptops are very proprietary and most times you can't just install whatever you want unless you can code drivers and such yourself. The fujitsu was not a TS so windows 8 was not a relevant OS. It's completely updated as far as win7 is concerned, it just broke itself when he allowed MS to update it to 10. Not that I'm very surprised.
If I choose to run Windows 7 forever and only use internet services from a VM - that's my prerogative.
> And if you turn off automatic updates, you become the biggest threat to your machine's security.
The typical user is already the biggest threat to their machine's security, regardless of whether updates are turned off or on. There's no windows update that specifically protects users from even the most common threats if the user doesn't exercise due diligence.