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wiiija said:
Why anybody would want to run 7 now is beyond me, it's unsupported, not worth the security risk for a start, some of us have never had a single issue with 10, thems the facts.
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Reminds me of when you had loads of people that wouldn't upgrade from windows XP :D
 
andshrew said:
Have you considered that over the last few years security has risen considerably in prominence and as a result you have far more people working in the sector actively trying to find and then report on vulnerabilities in software. If you look at this site showing CVEs by product going back to 1999 you'll see Debian Linux at the top with 3000, but if you look at the actual detail then over 1000 were reported in 2018 alone. Suggesting Windows 10 is not secure because it has almost as many CVEs recorded against it as Windows 7 did is just a really short-sighted interpretation of that data.

Vulnerabilities are always going to exist in software so the important statistic is how quickly a vendor is able to fix them once they're discovered. Windows has so much legacy code in that odds are any vulnerability discovered in Windows 10 is going to exist in earlier versions too, and unless you're a business who bought extended support or you're pirating the Windows 7 security updates they're never going to be fixed in Windows 7. As an end user of Windows the only thing you can do to keep your system as reasonably safe as possible is - as with any OS - to stay on the current version and install the monthly security updates as they're released.
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It was something I considered - but you have many security issues in 10 that both shouldn't have existed in the first place and are in components that are newer additions or approaches in the OS. If you read the rest of my posts in detail I take into account more factors than just the CVE numbers.

Spartacus1972 said:
Not looking for an argument, just asking if anyone had tried and suceeded. Rroff appears to be the only poster so far who can think for themselves.

Thanks for taking the time to read my question. Think i'll leave it there.
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Not something I like to band about but I find it concerning how even if you take 7 out of the equation many people get up in arms about the Intel vulnerability situation yet are not bothered about or even defend Windows 10 when many of the issues in 10 are much worse because they can, and are, exploitable by fire and forget malware and generally point to a bigger issue in security approach with MS.

I found it interesting with the whole Wannacry situation how phishing and Windows 7 were hand waved at as the problem yet security researchers who actually looked into it found a different situation with the entry point to many networks, where external SMB vulnerabilities weren't exposed, being an earlier flaw in Windows 10's malware protection engine which was actually executing certain malware instead of scanning and quarantining it.
 
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Rroff said:
Not something I like to band about but I find it concerning how even if you take 7 out of the equation many people get up in arms about the Intel vulnerability situation yet are not bothered about or even defend Windows 10 when many of the issues in 10 are much worse because they can, and are, exploitable by fire and forget malware and generally point to a bigger issue in security approach with MS.

I found it interesting with the whole Wannacry situation how phishing and Windows 7 were hand waved at as the problem yet security researchers who actually looked into it found a different situation with the entry point to many networks, where external SMB vulnerabilities weren't exposed, being an earlier flaw in Windows 10's malware protection engine which was actually executing certain malware instead of scanning and quarantining it.
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To be fair at least Win10 gets supported with security updates and is designed for latest hardware and more practical in present times, can't say same thing about Win7 EOL dead OS, gaming and drivers is another plus point on Win10 in my books, it's not a question of defending Win10 but more practical and makes more sense to MOST people with latest hardware.


Btw if gaming or even general Windows software was not important to him, then I would recommend a modern Linux build (yes I love Linux) for basic stuff like online shopping, banking, browsing etc but we all know Linux is not for every one, regardless of OS we all know end of the day you have to move on sooner or later, we do it all the time with hardware as well as software.


Btw I would have moved on to Win11,12 etc but we all know all Microsoft have stopped new numbers, all they are doing is changing present OS (Win10) with slightly different Win10 builds with minor changes and tweaks etc... so it's not a case of defending Win10.


Ironically I do miss all the old numbering of Windows builds ie 95,XP,7,8,8.1 etc, at least with them you knew what you was really on, with Win10 how many times can they change the OS by different build versions before it's not Win10 anymore?
 
Going from my intel to ryzen 7 1700 setup one of my windows 95 vms stopped booting. Something to do with amd cpu bug or missing features. Not happy and bad showing from amd. Windows 7 works fine on first gen ryzen and extended updates still work too.
 
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