It's really an exciting day for Windows 7 users. In what
Woody Leonard of Infoworld magazine has to say is that since the "
patchocalypse" where Windows was forcing Windows 7 users to load up the non-security roll-ups that contained spyware in order to get security update corrections, it looked like game over for Windows 7. We were doomed to end up with everything bad from Windows 10 without any of the good stuff.
But in a new announcement, Microsoft has changed their policy. Starting next month, any problems with security updates will be fixed in security updates. So many people quit updating Windows 7 at all that Microsoft felt compelled to
change their update policies.
From now, if you don't want to import Windows 10 spyware "features" into your Windows 7 installation, you can elect to install only the security updates, and Microsoft pledges that if they screw up a security update, from now on it will be fixed in a security update.
Skybird may be paranoid but that doesn't mean he's wrong. And unlike the pariah he's portrayed as by some on Subsim, he has had enough company to force Microsoft to change their ways. It's a small victory. That's a lot of people who agree with him and who independently came to the same conclusion not to update Windows 7.
Now we need a rollup patch to unload all the spyware we've been compelled to download so far. Of course, using Spybot Anti-Beacon keeps Microsoft from calling home anyway.