How can you use such an operating system now

    • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Problem is it’s 3 years past EOL and hasn’t received any security updates in that time.

      It’s functional, just not secure.

      • @chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org
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        192 years ago

        You know how when you press the Windows key and are able to type into the searchbar? Prior to 10, this bar did an instant local-only search of your desktop applications and (if you enabled it) select cached documents. Imagine building up the muscle memory of using this to launch applications for a decade or two to the point where you don’t even look at the screen anymore when launching apps. Now imagine that Windows 10 comes along and introduces a mandatory internet search that has to complete before it lets you see the local results that you were actually looking for.

        Now imagine not being able to forget how snappy it used to be every single time you launch an application. Imagine the annoyance of being punished for a typo by having Edge open up a Bing search instead of the application you were trying to launch. Imagine not noticing the error and waiting 5 seconds for Bing to boot up, only to be confusedly greeted by a search you didn’t ask for in a browser you wish you could uninstall. Imagine installing third-party applications to try and restore the old search experience only for it to get regularly broken by OS updates you cannot opt out of and are only sometimes notified of in advance (another “feature” that Windows 10 brought).

        IMO Windows 7 was the last “pure” Windows before the power balance at Microsoft tipped in favor of the cloud & sales people.

        • @Astroturfed@lemmy.world
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          62 years ago

          Woah man, why wouldn’t you want your computers key search features to just go straight to bing result? Are you using some kind of crazy computer that has things on physical memory? Fuck that put it all on the cloud man. It’s the future.

        • voxel
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          2 years ago

          you can disable the web search, and it’s really snappy with ms web integration garbage.

          • @chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org
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            52 years ago

            You can disable searching as a fall-through, but you cannot disable web results appearing inside of the menu itself, which is what slows it down. At least, that was the case for the first 4 years or so before I stopped using Windows 10 and switched to Linux.

            • @Darth_Vader__@lemmy.world
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              12 years ago

              you can, it’s just harder to do. I suggest find a debloater tool, and use it. Also remove cortana thing to make it even faster. There are some tools that let’s you remove all WinRT apps

            • voxel
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              you can fully disable all online/web search features in search using a group policy on Pro versions of windows. afaik there are even one click tools that can do that for you (pretty sure even good ol’ OOSU10 can do it)

      • Bipta
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        02 years ago

        I still did until last year. It’s probably still the best operating system ever made.

        • @IronKrill@lemmy.ca
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          12 years ago

          I had to upgrade 4 years ago when I bought new hardware and went to 10 and now 11. I still miss 7, it was insanely more performant and feature complete. From a UI point of view, anyway.

        • VitalyOP
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          42 years ago

          Even my school in ukraine use to have better computers, where do you live?

          • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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            42 years ago

            Slovakia. I mean, it’s not all of them. Most of it can even run Windows 7. Recently they put Windows 10 on some of them, but good luck even just trying to launch a browser.
            In June they already got rid of the last 32-bit machines.

  • ares35
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    82 years ago

    could just be the custom user-agent string configured in whatever browser or script they’re running.

  • @redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    1022 years ago

    You laugh but the fact that you got a login confirmation notification means he got your password now. He’ll just need to guess your email password next and you’ll be truly owned. Set up 2fa on your email account if you haven’t set it up already.

  • Hellfire103
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    342 years ago

    In the UK, a lot of our government still uses XP and a lot of our public embedded devices (e.g. the tills in the Co-Op) run on Internet Explorer.

    Some random Thai hacker using 7 isn’t that much of a stretch.

      • Hellfire103
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        52 years ago

        It’s a kind of shop. They do other things as well, but the shop is the most memorable. Co-Op is short for “Co-Operative”.

        They’re related to the Co-Op Party, which is part of the Labour party (a popular left-wing political party).

        • @twack@lemmy.world
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          32 years ago

          That is… Not quite the same as I thought whenever I read that word. Around here, a co-op is a collective purchasing program or a store that participates in a similar program. They buy foods in bulk at wholesale prices. By bulk, I don’t mean the family size bags available at a membership club like Costco. I mean like a 100lb bag of flour meant for a restaurant or an entire pallet of something.

          A group of people get together and make note of what they want to buy, and if enough people want the same item it gets purchased. Then they all meet up on delivery day and split the item at the amounts they paid for.

          I’m assuming that is very different than what you are describing.

  • @meanmon13@lemmy.zip
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    742 years ago

    If only you knew how many critical systems are running old versions of Windows… It’s mind boggling

  • @calypsopub@lemmy.world
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    22 years ago

    I still have one laptop running Windows 7 because it has some software I like to use that can’t be installed on later versions.