Security News > 2023 > January > S3 Ep117: The crypto crisis that wasn’t (and farewell forever to Win 7) [Audio + Text]

We've got one zero-day, but perhaps even bigger than that, we say, "Thanks for the memories, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, we hardly knew ye."

There's one zero-day, which I think is an elevation of privilege, and that applies right from Windows 8.1 all the way to Windows 11 2022H2, the most recent release.

If you still have Windows 7, or you're one of those people who still has Windows 8.1, *you aren't going to get any more security updates ever*.

"My recollection of the reason there was no Windows 9 was to avoid poorly written version checking code erroneously concluding that something reporting 'Windows 9' was Windows 95 or Windows 98.".

My recollection is that actually when you used the now-deprecated Windows function GetVersion() to find out the version number, it didn't tell you "Windows Vista" or "Windows XP". It actually gave you a major version DOT minor version.

From memory the Windows 9x series, which was Windows 95, Windows 98, and of course Windows Me, was actually version 4-dot-something.

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