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“I have altered the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
“This deal’s getting worse all the time… ”
I think this quote is from some movie ;-), but every week I’m thankful that I’m still on Windows 7 x 64, albeit with new hardware.
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This looks really useful, assuming it isn’t crammed full of Windows 10 style telemetry, or other poison pills. Thanks.
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The Atlantic has a really good article on this by Dr. James Hamblin, staff writer and lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/
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According to this Arstechnica article, MS will use IP data to determine where the user lives before changing the default search engine.
“This new policy only takes places in specific geographic areas, as determined by a user’s IP address. If you aren’t in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, the UK, or the United States, you should be safe—for now, at least, and assuming you don’t take your laptop on holiday or work-related travel to one of those countries during a time an Office update rolls out. Microsoft says it may add new locations over time but will notify administrators through the Microsoft 365 admin center if and when it does.”
Sorry, I see steeviebops already reported this.
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Does anyone even use Bing? (Other than Grandmas who don’t know how to change it).
Even at work they change it to Google by default.
I’ve actually found Bing to be quite useful when searching for Microsoft related content (drivers, hotfixes, Windows syntax, etc.) and have it as a drop down search engine in my Bookmarks Toolbar.
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Self Destructing Cookies still works on Basilisk (a Firefox ESR clone) and automatically deletes website cookies once the tab is closed, the browser is closed, or not at all depending on your settings. (WebEx)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies-webex/
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This was the answer on the TurboTax site:
“While our minimum system requirements are Windows 8 and above, you’ll still be able to install and use TurboTax 2019 for Windows with Windows 7 or newer. We strongly recommend using TurboTax 2019 with Windows 8 and above. TurboTax 2016, 2017 and 2018 will also run on Windows 7 as well as the newest Windows releases. However, you won’t be able to use TurboTax 2020 with Windows 7. If you want to keep using Windows 7 after 2019, consider TurboTax Online for your tax preparation needs.” [for tax year 2019, filed in 2020]
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You could be right. Mark Twain said “Education is the path from c**** ignorance to miserable uncertainty”, however I have off-line images of all of my drives, all remote file sharing, printer sharing, desktop, registry etc. disabled, as well as robust antivirus/ anti-malware solutions. In addition when the security vulnerabilities can be ameliorated in a different way such as disabling SMBv1 via the registry, I have done so. Since my computers are for private use only and the information on them is of no use to anyone else, I feel the risk is low and one I’m willing to take.
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I plan on using Windows Media Center for the foreseeable future. I’ve been using EPG123 and Schedules Direct for the past several years now for guide information so there shouldn’t be any interruption in service when Windows 7 support ends. In fact (others may disagree), I feel that the whole end of Windows 7 support is grossly over blown as is the new hardware argument since I’ve been running Windows 7 x64 on my main Ryzen 3900x MSI X570 machine without any problems for the past 4 months.
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