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fay47 Royal Geek
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| Subject: windows 7 9/8/2014, 20:26 | |
| One article I found says mainstream support for win 7 will end jan 15, 2015, and extended support will end jan 14, 2020. I think that I read that the extended support would supply security patches even for regular users. SO, I should be ok with my win 7 machines for quite some time -is that correct? I am no where near being ready to upgrade.
Just curious, did they extend support for XP - looks extended support did not end till Apr this year ?
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| Subject: Re: windows 7 9/12/2014, 11:19 | |
| Well, as long as we get the critical updates, 2020 is plenty of time. I worked on a computer with Windows 8 for my nephew recently, and I don't like it, but I guess with time I can get used to it. I prefer to stick with Windows 7 for as long as possible. For Win XP, I did my last update in April and haven't checked since. Maybe I will, just to see if anything is out there. | |
| | | fay47 Royal Geek
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| Subject: Re: windows 7 9/12/2014, 15:12 | |
| Repa,
That is one thing I am a bit confused about as to whether regular, non-business, customers get the security updates in the extended support phase. Some things I read, sounds like we do , and other things I read, make me questions that. Since mainstream support for win 7 ends in Jan, makes me a little nervous. Do you know for sure if us normal folks will get security updates in the extended support phase?
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| Subject: Re: windows 7 9/12/2014, 17:30 | |
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| | | fay47 Royal Geek
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| Subject: Re: windows 7 9/12/2014, 19:18 | |
| Repa,
That is good to know about Win 7.
This computer is 4 years old, not sure how long it will last, but certainly in no hurry to get a new one.
I have an application I wrote myself in Visual Fox Pro and am concerned that at some point a version of windows may drop support for it. I use it for my checkbook and have over 20 years of data in foxpro's .DBF tables. (It actually started out as a foxpo for dos application) I know there is commercial software, but mine is customized to do things the way I want. Does not do all the fancy stuff that the commercial software does, but does things the way I want - including letting me set up "envelopes" (accounts) for my check data. I really like FoxPro and its command window that I can run commands from and not have to write a program for everything I want to do. The thought of not being able to use it -urghhhh - do not know what I will do if that happens.
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