Two years ago I quit a company that was using a database (with sensitive user PII like social security numbers in the db) accessible via unencrypted TELNET. Not SSH, TELNET. I’m not fucking shitting you.
I worked there for one week and was like “fuuuuuuuuuuck this” and lied and said I had a better offer and tendered my resignation. I wasn’t part of the IT department and I wasn’t going to go down for an incompetent IT department.
To be honest, Windows 7 is best Windows for me but no existing applications can be used on it. So I hope I can use Windows 10 until game compatibility on Linux passes the threshold I’m looking for :)
You can use Windows XP today if you want. There’s a Chromium build that’ll let you browse the modern web.
How long you can use an OS really depends on what you’re doing on your computer and how. It’s impossible to say. Plenty of restaurants, HVAC systems, and critical industrial infrastructure still runs on MS-DOS.
I’ve never seen an MS-DOS pump in my life (pretty sure the contactless payment terminals wouldn’t like them), but I’ve seen plenty of Windows CE. Most of them either connected only to an intranet or not connected at all. You don’t really need all that much complexity for the ordering screen at a restaurant.
That’s not even a problem for connected systems, either. Windows Embedded POSReady 7 (POS standing for “point of sale”) will still receive critical and important security updates until October this year. Windows Embedded Standard 7 got updates until last October. Windows For Embedded Systems (a version of Windows 8) will receive support until 2026, while Windows 10 for consumers dies a year before that!
If you buy a new device and want to run the same version for as long as possible, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise has a SKU that will receive support until 2032. It’s not just Windows, though; Ubuntu 14.04 (released in April of 2014, hence the name) will receive support until next year as well, boasting an impressive 12 years of support if you’re willing to pay for it.
How long we will be able to use 10 after EOL? Would companies immediately stop updating their apps?
As long as you want, assuming that you’re fine with everything that’s rendered incompatible in the future.
I’ve seen POS systems in local burrito shops still running Windows 7… native, not a VM…
I saw a bottle return machine running Windows 98.
I worked in a company which ran everything down to MS-DOS
Two years ago I quit a company that was using a database (with sensitive user PII like social security numbers in the db) accessible via unencrypted TELNET. Not SSH, TELNET. I’m not fucking shitting you.
I worked there for one week and was like “fuuuuuuuuuuck this” and lied and said I had a better offer and tendered my resignation. I wasn’t part of the IT department and I wasn’t going to go down for an incompetent IT department.
The voip call manager in my last shop was running off win95.
To be honest, Windows 7 is best Windows for me but no existing applications can be used on it. So I hope I can use Windows 10 until game compatibility on Linux passes the threshold I’m looking for :)
What threshold are you looking for and when was the last time you tried it? I don’t even think about it anymore.
Depending on your game preference it may be already there in some aspects
Basically it depends on the kind of anticheat the game has
if you’re running a single instance of a game it’s already there. (I multibox so fuck me I guess)
if you’re waiting for native support it’s a chicken and egg scenario, your best bet is to switch asap and show developers there’s a market.
You can use Windows XP today if you want. There’s a Chromium build that’ll let you browse the modern web.
How long you can use an OS really depends on what you’re doing on your computer and how. It’s impossible to say. Plenty of restaurants, HVAC systems, and critical industrial infrastructure still runs on MS-DOS.
Don’t a lot of gas pumps still run on MS-DOS?
I’ve never seen an MS-DOS pump in my life (pretty sure the contactless payment terminals wouldn’t like them), but I’ve seen plenty of Windows CE. Most of them either connected only to an intranet or not connected at all. You don’t really need all that much complexity for the ordering screen at a restaurant.
That’s not even a problem for connected systems, either. Windows Embedded POSReady 7 (POS standing for “point of sale”) will still receive critical and important security updates until October this year. Windows Embedded Standard 7 got updates until last October. Windows For Embedded Systems (a version of Windows 8) will receive support until 2026, while Windows 10 for consumers dies a year before that!
If you buy a new device and want to run the same version for as long as possible, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise has a SKU that will receive support until 2032. It’s not just Windows, though; Ubuntu 14.04 (released in April of 2014, hence the name) will receive support until next year as well, boasting an impressive 12 years of support if you’re willing to pay for it.
We? I think most of us are not using Windows 10. Or Windows 11. Or Windows.