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Steam has died its final death on Windows 7 and 8: Nearly a year after Valve ended support, new Steam updates will no longer function on the ancient OSes (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't type on that without rubber gloves, if I were you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

And yet it is just fine for your banking institutions, and a surprising amount of government machines.

I think it is just lovely on my media PC in my living room.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

That's because those banking institutions have enterprise level support that they pay for yearly from Microsoft.

You do not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It is just lovely on any PC that doesn't connect to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, you sweet summer child.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure what you mean, but I've never seen a banking or government machine that was raw-dogging the internet.
They're behind a firewall, a web filter, a content deconstructor, a hyperlink sandbox and an endpoint protection where processes need to be white-listed to run.

In such a setting, it may be safe to still run Windows 7 for some tasks, but it won't be for browsing and email.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Not sure how its done in your country, but there are very much windows 7 machines here "raw dogging" the internet. Its more about risk management then anything.

I mean we are in a world where right now the security solutions are worse then the risk of attack. Right now attacks are done mainly with social engineering and the new systems make bonzi buddy look tame.

There is little point punishing my self by changing my windows 7 machine that I like just so that I can change out old vulnerabilities with new ones. I swear software fear mongering runs half the industry right now on nothing other then inertia.