It's not as if the upgrade cost, at least when moving away from the enterprise and into consumer territory, should be a factor. If that sounds like bad news to you, there’s also some good: it appears you can still upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free. The FBI also want to have a word with you if you are a Windows 7 user. That is a fact that concerns me, as a security person.

Apart from the fact that it's none of these things, of course: Windows 7 remains the second biggest desktop and laptop OS with around a quarter of the market share, behind Windows 10 and ahead of Mac OS X 10. Windows 7 is dead it has ceased to be, expired and gone to meet its maker.

That was the latest in a whole string of security warnings about continuing to use an operating system that has already long-since reached its official end of life status. FBI warns Windows 7 users to update to Windows 10 SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesĪlmost exactly one month ago, on July 10, I warned Windows 7 users about the risk of using the Zoom client courtesy of a security vulnerability that wasn't exploitable on either Windows 8 or Windows 10.

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