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Topic: Windows 7 Support extended to 2023!
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Marcel Birgelen
Film God
Posts: 3357
From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 09-13-2018 04:14 PM
As long as you make sure it's not connected to the Internet and nothing else changes, there's really no need to constantly updating specific systems.
Although, I've seen some time-bombs go off in certain systems, in many cases those were related to expired certificates.
quote: Leo Enticknap Apparently there are hundreds of thousands of computers out there, especially medical devices (e.g. PCs that control dialysis machines and automated anesthesia delivery), running XP, which would require complex regulatory hurdles to be cleared were the OS to be upgraded.
The engineer in me really gets angry if somebody really considers Windows to be a platform for life-supporting equipment...
Unfortunately, incompetence is something that's universal, across all layers of humanity...
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Jack Ondracek
Film God
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Posts: 2348
From: Port Orchard, WA, USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 09-13-2018 07:03 PM
I, for one, am thrilled.
My menu boards all run on Windows 10. Their infernal updates have been the only problem I've ever had with the service... and it's been a huge problem. Those darned things decide, pretty much whenever they want, that I need to know an update is coming, or that I need to do it now, or I need to schedule it, because their update is far more important than whatever I'm using their OS FOR. 3 of those mini-computers, that do nothing much more than run Chrome, have bricked themselves during updates.
I also use Windows at a number of radio station transmitter sites, where I run software-based audio processors. For that matter, I also do that at my drive-in (and my automation is Windows based). All of those computers are on Win-7, because Win-10 updates shut the stations down until they're done. Can't have that.
If they'd turn off the mandatory "feature", it wouldn't be a bad system. But...
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