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The official support of Windows 7 has finally ended today! (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But I’d also wager that, in the longer term, a decent portion of that 3% ends up on Linux.

Or they just continue to use their out of date OS. XP still has a 0.6% market share, and I have no idea what remotely modern software works on XP. Browsing the modern web will be a pain with the new encryption standards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.