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Should of followed Woody’s advice and got a Chromebook 🙂

Interesting to see if they try this in the EU

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I have that error as well

I have 3 machines running 7 unpatch since December 2017 (when the january patch borked old cpus), I have had great stability since then, the risk on line is not that high with good internet hygiene, AV and a correctly configured browser.  When these machines go down to fatigue, I will dual boot Mint and Win10, Win10 will be there for the odd game dev (Epic) that doesn’t support non-MS gaming on PC.  If you back up there is nothing on a  PC that is irreplacable, why get rid of something that works very well.

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And me.  I haven’t been patch my win7 machines since October 2017, no problems so far.

‘Having a deep sense of customers’ unmet and unarticulated needs must drive our innovation’

Our customers don’t know what they want, we will tell them what they want and if they don’t like what we provide they are wrong and not ‘modern’

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I’m dual booting Linux Mint and Win 7, on the basis that Mint will be my main world facing OS and Win7 for some old apps, cannot face Win 10 and the update cycle that imposes.

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Lost any faith in MS, sticking with Group W, there are no exploits in the wild

Group W since December 2017 patches, no problems, fixing spectre/meltdown seems to more malware than the non-existent malware

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Skipping, as I’m not sure what the actual performance hit will be on old hardware running 7. Going to get a test rig for linux distros in the next couple of weeks

Group W here I come

Is there any substantive data on the impact of the meltdown and spectre patches on pre6 series CPUs; need to decided if I’m ploughing my own furrow or not

I have 3rd, 4th and 6th generation CPUs on my Win7 rigs.  The OEMs/component manufactuers do not appear to be commonly supporting hardware configurations that are more than 3 years old, and there is certainly no reliable information on the patch impact on older hardware. So it seems to me that those of us with older set ups need to act like its 2020, switch off up dates and apply commonsense security controls going forward.

Personally I think this fiasco is detrimental to IT in general, and pushing people to ‘safer’ thin client, smart phone and console options.  For microsoft are CEOs going to commit to going to the cloud with there core customer and commercial data when every week there are new vulnerabilities in hardware and software

Old rigs are on their own from here on out.

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This is really depressing. There seems to be no clear way forward, options

1/ accept MS domination and move to 10, be a beta tester and be data mined

2/ learn new OS, some linux flavour and have limited access to programmes/games

3/ Give up and star at an android pad

This is meant to be progress.

 

Built a machine last year with i5-6600k, is it going to have an issue.

Seems that MS is determined to p off power users