Microsoft says itll offer free security updates through the 2020 election in the United States and in other interested democratic countries with national elections next year for federally certified voting systems running on soon-to-be-outdated Windows 7 software.
That word comes from a Microsoft executive in a blogpost Friday.
An Associated Press analysis previously found that the vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions in the U.S. use Windows 7 or an older operating system to create ballots, program voting machines, tally votes and report counts.
Windows 7 reaches its end of life on Jan. 14, meaning Microsoft stops providing free technical support and producing patches to fix software vulnerabilities, which hackers can exploit. Cash-strapped election officials have been scrambling to address this.
(AP)
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Do NOT update! Micro$lop screw up with their updates and so another update will be needed. If your win7 works fine, remember: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”!
My computer has win7 and I have never updated it since I had to erase the cursed win8 and install win7 (the last good M$ OS….
Garlic! You must get windows 10, as they are stopping security updates for all other versions including windows 7. You can get windows 10 for 1/2 the price on Amazon, around $100. They have to be good as amazon is very strict about sellers.