It’s not known exactly how many Windows 7 machines are still running (or connected to the internet, which increases their risk), but some market share data puts the number as high as about one in 10 desktop computers. Those extended security updates came to an end today. Windows 7 was sunset in January 2020 after more than a decade in service, but Microsoft allowed customers to pay for extended security support to help maintain legacy or older equipment that isn’t easy to upgrade, like hospital scanning equipment and production line systems.
Some three years after Microsoft called time on mainstream support of Windows 7, the technology giant will no longer provide security updates, leaving the remaining users the option to upgrade to a newer operating system or remain vulnerable to ongoing security threats. With that I'm mostly curious if anyone else here has noticed anything similar? The article does a solid job of explaining what needs to be done in order to avoid it and we're taking measures with our RMM software to prevent this taking place on our client machines but for those that perhaps don't have a robust RMM agent in place for whatever reason it sounds like it'll be a nightmare having to go around from machine to machine making sure the update isn't being installed or if it has, making completely certain it isn't going to install 10 on it's own.Pour one out for Windows 7, the decade-old operating system that today reached the end of the security line. I've performed a fair deal of research into this and while I can find the culprit update I can't find any official confirmation from Microsoft that this is the case nor am I currently seeing any third party articles that explicitly state having seen this in the wild, the closest I've found is this article denoting the registry for GWX showing up and looking exactly the infamous version from a few years ago that automatically upgraded user machines. Just today we noticed one of our own conference Win 7 Pro PCs ran the latest patch Tuesday KB4524752 update and upgraded automatically from 7 to 10 with no input whatsoever from us, and my own personal PC at home which also runs Pro attempted but failed to run the upgrade, likely only due to my C drive being close to full. I work as an MSP with multiple clients most of which are still running managed Windows 7 PCs, and a fair number of them are running legacy software or are set up with peripheral equipment in some fashion that requires the Win 7 platform.
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