[syhprum (OP)]

Windows 7 had a facilaty to play tunes from an android device onto your PC but in their moves to thin down windows 10 they removed it but now they have replaced it in a rather roundabout way.
(not as a normal extension !)

[charles1948]

Windows 7 had a facilaty to play tunes from an android device onto your PC but in their moves to thin down windows 10 they removed it but now they have replaced it in a rather roundabout way.
(not as a normal extension !)

I'm still using Windows-7.  It  continues to work OK.  A while ago there were reports that it would stop getting support from Microsoft.  I have noticed that the number of "Updates" seems to have dwindled.  In the old days, every time I booted-up, there was an annoying delay while new "Updates" were "Installed" and "Configured".

This happens less often nowadays. Is that good?

[evan_au]

Microsoft support for Windows 7 ended in January 2020.
- You will become increasingly subject to malicious attacks, as more vulnerabilities become known to the hacker community
- Time to upgrade, I'm afraid...
See: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-windows-7-support
 

[chris]

- Time to upgrade, I'm afraid...

@evan_au is absolutely right, and this has never been more critical than now with so much of our lives moving online and such heavy reliance on IT; online crime now massively outpaces traditional "street" crime in value terms, and old, vulnerable software is easy to target at mass scale and low cost / risk for malicious actors.

I would strongly urge you to upgrade - it's still free to do so.

Or switch to linux, which is always free, much safer and actually allows you to control your computer properly when you want to...

[charles1948]

Thanks Evan and Chris.  I carried on using Windows-7, because I thought that if it stopped being supported by Microsoft, I'd get a message from Microsoft saying so.

But I didn't get any message like that, so I assumed it was OK to keep using it.

Now that you have put me straight, I'll follow your advice and upgrade.

Thanks again!