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Microsoft Screws Windows 7 Users – A Serious Problem
by Gordon Kelly
Earlier this year Microsoft MSFT +1.90% warned users that Windows 7 has serious problems. I dismissed its claims as a desperate attempt to shift copies of Windows 10 (and I still do), but now Microsoft has warned of a new serious Windows 7 problem that is very real – even though it makes no sense whatsoever…
In short: Microsoft has made a seemingly small yet completely bizarre tweak to Windows Update on Windows 7 and confirmed it is crippling many users’ PCs.
The tweak? It switched the status of Windows 7 update KB3133977 from ‘Optional’ to ‘Recommended’. The bizarre part? Despite acknowledging the problems, Microsoft knew they would occur in advance and it has no plans to do anything about it.
Windows 7 users are being pushed to upgrade to Windows 10. Image credit: Gordon Kelly
Ok, let’s put some meat on these bones.
PCs That Suddenly Won’t Start
It all centres around Asus motherboards.
Now 27 years old, Asus is one of the largest PC component makers and supplies motherboards to many of the world’s biggest PC makers. Recently it enabled Secure Boot in UEFI on all its motherboards. This wasn’t a problem for older PCs because Windows 7 didn’t support Secure Boot, that is until KB3133977 came along in March and enabled it.
Steve Says…
The idea is to get everyone on Windows 10. Then they have full access to all your private data and can take over control of your machine at will. The plan all along.
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Source: http://www.philosophers-stone.co.uk/?p=11127
