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AskWoody LoungerShould of followed Woody’s advice and got a Chromebook 🙂
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 15, 2021 at 8:49 am in reply to: Attention partners Microsoft really is coming for your clients this time #2334577Interesting to see if they try this in the EU
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AskWoody LoungerOctober 4, 2020 at 9:01 am in reply to: Patch Lady – what would you change about Windows 10? #2300922I have that error as well
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AskWoody LoungerI 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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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 16, 2019 at 12:21 pm in reply to: Patch Lady – Windows 7 documentation is showing it’s age #312193And me. I haven’t been patch my win7 machines since October 2017, no problems so far.
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AskWoody Lounger‘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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AskWoody LoungerMarch 2, 2018 at 6:52 am in reply to: Microsoft “helps” Intel by releasing KB 4090007, a Spectre 2 firmware update for Win10 1709, Skylake processors only #171658Lost any faith in MS, sticking with Group W, there are no exploits in the wild
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AskWoody LoungerFebruary 25, 2018 at 4:50 am in reply to: Weird hibernation state on reboot attributed to Win7 patches #170228Group W since December 2017 patches, no problems, fixing spectre/meltdown seems to more malware than the non-existent malware
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AskWoody LoungerFebruary 5, 2018 at 12:10 pm in reply to: MS-DEFCON 3: Lots of caveats, but it’s time to get patched #164890Skipping, 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
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 24, 2018 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Did you install the latest Meltdown/Spectre BIOS/UEFI firmware update? Joke’s on you #161862Group W here I come
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 19, 2018 at 12:42 pm in reply to: Yet another massive release of patches, re-patches, re-grouped patches, and a few explanations #160476Is 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
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 12, 2018 at 12:17 pm in reply to: Intel admits that its Meltdown/Spectre firmware patches trigger reboots on Haswell and Broadwell computers #158844I 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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AskWoody LoungerThis 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.
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AskWoody LoungerMarch 23, 2017 at 1:52 pm in reply to: A crisis looms for Win7 and 8.1 customers with recently-built computers #103790Built a machine last year with i5-6600k, is it going to have an issue.
Seems that MS is determined to p off power users