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By Nick Heath | January 17, 2017
As time goes by, Microsoft seems to be making it more difficult to justify sticking with Windows 7.
First Microsoft announced it will scale back support for Windows 7 on new machines and more recently it began a campaign to denigrate the security of Windows 7 relative to Windows 10.
This week the German arm of Microsoft said that Windows 7 "won't meet the requirements of users of modern technology, nor the higher security needs of IT departments", going on to say the older OS "is based on long-outdated security architectures".
This downbeat assessment came days after Microsoft announced that Windows 10's hardened security had neutralized several vulnerabilities that were later exploited by two zero-day hacks—proactively protecting the OS without the need for a dedicated patch.
The security measures that blocked these zero-days were added to Windows 10 via the Anniversary Update patch last summer. So why couldn't these same protections be added to Windows 7 and other older Microsoft operating systems? Is this a deliberate choice by Microsoft to push users to Windows 10 or is it unreasonable to expect Microsoft to expend resources updating older OSes in this way?
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