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The official support of Windows 7 has finally ended today! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a lot of systems that still uses it, cause it does its work and would be a pain to change. Of course they should avoid any contact with the net.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder how they figure the 0.6% if those systems aren't sending telemetry via the internet. Is there an organization that does a hardware census or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It’s my understanding that many of those surveys do so from tracking user agent strings from browsers. Whole they can be modified, most people have no idea how to do so.