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Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn't always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

How bad is security if you still have Windows 7 installed today?

Looks like 3% of windows users worldwide could help answer that question. Well, up to 3%… guessing not too many of them are too savvy.

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

I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that those machines are corporate owned and running legacy systems that are hanging on by a thread.

Every year someone talks about replacing Ol’ Smoky but the new system would need to go through validation and that costs time and money so they limp along for another year

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I try to not connect mine to the internet anymore