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Researchers warn that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to landfills
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this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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How dangerous can it be to run an old OS anyways? Been doing it for years. Might actually be a good thing now that the forced updates are gone.
Sometimes very dangerous, as an example a company may pay for security updates for windows XP, but you won't get these updates. Say someone takes a look at what changed, finds a buffer overflow or other easily exploited bug, embeds that in a program, and pays to have it bundled with some freeware. One of these exploits could even infect you just from visiting a webpage.
Security updates are annoying but they're the one kind of update Microsoft is actually justified in pushing
Hmmm... I guess it'll be a new thing, you know, new problems for old tech... Maybe some of the guys from ReactOS will find some old canonical guys to work with and build a new alternative to windows 7 for all the old computers out there. As for how they'll make money it'll probably be great for keeping all the old OEM's and engineering software companies by keeping their old product lines somewhat relevant
I'd like to know too.