Don’t worry. An OS doesn’t instantly become vulnerable as soon as it loses support, it does so gradually, as more vulnerabilities get discovered. Browsers will still have support; take Firefox 115 (albeit only till March), and Supermium as an example.
Actually patched Windows 7 is way better than win11 just check ms bulletin board to see quantity of bugs
And you will also be able to upgrade from Firefox 115.33 to R3dfox 149, which is a fork of Firefox, in March 2026 if you are currently using Windows 7.
You're mistaken, it's Eclipse Community r3dfox you need to search for, not e3skoy7wqk Nightly, and version 149 isn't out yet; the available version is r3dfox 146.
Dardkvan vp2 peter4heppner Browser support forum for Win7 is: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/discussion-browser-support-for-windows-7.86383/page-41
After W7 goes into the freezer, it will join the number of legacy OSs that are vastly better than their new! improved! successors, but unsupported for security patches. Avoiding W11 like the plague it is, I am myself looking into a Linux laptop (Ubuntu 24 seems to be ubiquitous) to do the secure online stuff, leaving my old Macbook Pro offline with W7 as a guest VM, although I still find XP is better and faster and does not fry my sound card or corrupt files as W7 tended to. It is also faster, with little lag. XP's File Manager is to go to when organising files, and also has the best sound editing and image editing apps, dating back to the golden age before analyticals and forced subscriptions/upgrades ruined everything. XP even supports a version of Firefox that still lets me use Adblock Pro and NoScript, especially since so many websites run a dozen or more suspicious third party scripts without my consent, unless I get NoScript to block them. How many current systems offer that level of security? This raises the question - with W7 joining XP (and Snow Leopard) as unsupported and frowned-on OSx - how many of these unsupported ancients actually attract hackers? There are richer pickings to be had from those that can afford state-of-the-art, and AI is like Christmas to internet villains. When would it be that XP is safer to use than even W7, and certainly much safer than W11? How long before hackers give up trying to hack into W7?
Yeah win11 is a complete trash. I am evaluating transition to win 8.1 somewhere around 2027, since it is possible to fully redecorate it to Win 7 looks, so it is quite a neat choice. Especially knowing the fact that 8.1 handles the most modern nodejs, git, vite w/0 any hacks. It would be even better if hackers backport Windows Server 2012 updates, os still being updated until october 2026
As for me I got every NT from NT4 onwards running natively. I run a 2016 build of 2k and a 2019 build of XP (both x86) and Vista (x64) triple booted on my desktop. My beheaded Dell laptop runs Win7. One of my ASUS laptops runs 2012 R2 (with client theme) and macOS Sequoia, my main (HP with i3-5005u) runs 10 21H2 LTSC and 11 Canary 28020.1362. My other HP laptop runs Server 2022 and macOS Tahoe, and the other ASUS runs Server 2025 24/7. My Wii boots NT 4.0 SP2 PPC natively, and the desktop also has an install of SP6a but I haven’t booted it for a while because, for some mysterious reason, everytime it boots, the Vista partition gets broken and requires a chkdsk for it to work again. This incoming EOS means nothing for me, if I can use XP (that has been truly EOS for nearly 7 years) with no issues, I can certainly do the same with Vista and 7.
Surely you can do, nothing wrong with this. i am still using win7 on my modern daily driver, just pointed out that surprisingly for me win 8.1 have some benefits for a web development. I thought profit will be marginal but no.
I got all the updates slipstreamed and onto a bootable USB stick. Tried the installation on an old motherboard (A7N8X), it got to the first Windows 7 screen, but it froze. Next I am going to try it from a CD/DVD disk.