With Windows 10's end-of-life less than a year away, up to 240 million PCs could be expedited to landfill. Here are some ideas to delay that end well past 2025.
But isn’t it unsecure if you connect it to networks or worse, the internet? I would use Windows 7 ONLY in a virtual machine, or alternatively on real machine that is not connected to the internet.
Just don’t upgrade?
I just retired a Windows 7 box this past summer, because it just worked until then.
Dear God I hope that was an airgapped machine…
But isn’t it unsecure if you connect it to networks or worse, the internet? I would use Windows 7 ONLY in a virtual machine, or alternatively on real machine that is not connected to the internet.
All I do on my PC is play games and look at memes.
Who wants to hack this machine?
Who cares if they do?
Oh no! I’ll have to reformat. Man… That’s minorly annoying.
Sums up the average Windows user.
“I post my browser history on my public Facebook page cuz I have nothing to hide.”
That sounds great for an airgapped device! Most aren’t though
mofos out here begging for another wannacry