{"id":237,"date":"2017-12-03T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/?p=237"},"modified":"2017-12-03T13:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T13:35:05","slug":"is-windows-7-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Is Windows 7 dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you use Windows 7 should you worry about lack of support?<\/p>\n

Although mainstream support ended January 2015 a lot of people are still using this Operating System.<\/p>\n

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And why not? It is still a good OS, in fact it only needed one service pack throughout the lifecycle.\u00a0 And talking of service packs, if you have installed Windows 7 Service Pack 1, then you will still get extended support up to at least January 2020.<\/p>\n

So what are the downsides of using Win 7?\u00a0 Well if you are installing it on newer hardware you may have problems with some software and drivers for the latest chipsets.\u00a0 However, if you use it then it is probably because you have software that runs well on it, or hardware that may be incompatible with a newer OS.\u00a0 Perhaps you don’t want the hassle of getting users up to speed on a new system, or you are too mean to flash the cash.\u00a0 Whichever it is, if you have a system that works for you now, then you should be OK for another year or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you use Windows 7 should you worry about lack of support? Although mainstream support ended January 2015 a lot of people are still using this Operating System.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[39,34,17,38],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-end-of-support","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XT9c-3P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}