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There is a relatively old—though still fundamentally true—adage about Windows: Microsoft's biggest competition is Microsoft, as a specific subset of users (and businesses) only upgrade to the latest version of Windows kicking and screaming. According to SpiceWorks' Future of Network and Endpoint Security report, published Tuesday, 32% of organizations still have at least one Windows XP device connected to their network, despite extended support for XP ending in 2014. (Notably, the last variant of XP, Windows POSReady 2009, reached end of life in April 2019.)
With the looming end of free support for Windows 7, this reticence of users and enterprises to upgrade to newer versions of Windows is likely to create significant security issues. Presently, 79% of organizations still have at least one Windows 7 system on their network, according to SpiceWorks, which also found that two thirds of businesses plan to migrate all of their machines off Windows 7 prior to the end of support on January 14, 2020, while a quarter will only migrate after that deadline.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday July 31 2019, @12:15AM
Mid 90s, bunch of Sun machines used for logging (and development, and monitoring, but logging was the issue). They would crash and every time they got rebooted they had less disc space. Heard about this in a meeting that was half VPs and above, the other half a smattering of techs to engineers to PMs. I was an engineer. Tech said "dunno where the disc space is going", I said "fsuck the drive", then thought "oops, should not have said that". A VP looked at me, said "what?". I said "run eff ess cee kay on the drive". Next week the tech said "hey, we got all our disc space back!", and all was well.
Not sure if I was the only one who read fsck as fsuck, but after that meeting I'm sure it spread like a, hey, a meme! I mighta started a meme!
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.