Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many critical vulnerabilities are currently unpatched in Windows 7?
There’s always going to be vulnerabilities, that’s why they’re ending support. They don’t want to spend time updating an OS they don’t want people using.
Windows 10 is probably fairly secure… today. In 2 years, someone might discover a new vulnerability, and you won’t get the update. If there’s a new way to do web security and the browsers need OS support to implement it, you’ll be stuck on legacy security settings.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 days ago
It’s not going to take 2 years…
New vulnerabilities are found on a daily to weekly basis.
To put this in perspective. In 2024 there were 1360 reported, 587 vulnerabilities confirmed with 33 of them deemed critical.
I would guess that there are critical vulnerabilities that are right now being worked on because there is no concern of the exploit being patched.