Re:Windows 7 won't die, still second most popular operating ...
by zaphirplane on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:51PM
(#24984425)
Kind of funny to say the security machine hasn’t been patched for 2 years
Yeah I know it’s badges not mission impossible security
Re:Windows 7 won't die, still second most popular operating ...
by White_Wolf on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:04PM
(#24985446)
For isolated machines it's not uncommon.
The process to re-approve a machine after a bloody update is painful(to say the least).
Even for something as lousy as a BMS system of a reasonable size (100 bacnet controller) will still take 1 week or more to fully test and approve. Keep in midn that these are machine where the only things that you can plug in are those whitelisted at the end of the test.
Even the approval to replace a keyb+mouse set takes a few days and requires a sys admin to go to site.
Re:Windows 7 won't die, still second most popular operating ...
by ksk on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @01:35PM
(#24991704)
Heh, Yes on re-reading the comment it does sound ironic. :)
Our IT is not purposely keeping a security hole open to boast about uptime. If there was a security impact to our particular configuration/use-case, we'd patch it for sure.
Even with the somewhat limited pro edition, our IT is able to give us months and months of uptime for certain critical computers (i'm in biotech). Heck we have a W10 pro machine that handles building security and it has over 2 years of uptime.
The problem is the disconnect between HN and the average user who is dumb as rocks when it comes to tech. The average user expects the OS to magically take over the sysadmin duties. They just want it to be as simple and seamless as their phone - not an entirely unreasonable expectation given that the phone is sharing a lot of tasks that were only done on dedicated machines.