Win 7 still supported? KB2952664

I thought Win 7 was not going to be supported?
Today it says KB2952664 is "important".
Is it still trying to sneak Win 10 ?
Is it safe to accept 29952664?

And an "optional" I did not accept is gone.

Thanks for any comment.

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Il giorno Tue 18 Jul 2017 04:53:09p, *masonc* ha inviato su
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I thought Win 7 was not going to be supported?

Thanks for any comment.


Support status
Mainstream support ended on January 13, 2015.
Extended support ends on January 14, 2020.
Installing Service Pack 1 is required for users to receive updates and
support after April 9, 2013.

Address : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7

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"masonc" wrote in message
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I thought Win 7 was not going to be supported?
Today it says KB2952664 is "important".
Is it still trying to sneak Win 10 ?
Is it safe to accept 29952664?


2952664 is on my list of updates not to install because it may try to sneak
on Win10. I think it was mentioned in Computer Active (UK) under their "do
not install" list, along with

3035583
3021917

Whether this is actually the case, I don't know, but no way am I risking it
anywhere near my Win 7 PC which will NOT be upgraded to Win 10 except over
my dead body.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:19:25 +0100, NY wrote:

2952664 is on my list of updates not to install because it may try to sneak
on Win10. I think it was mentioned in Computer Active (UK) under their "do
not install" list, along with

It's not W10 you need to worry about, but I was also warned not to
install this one (for a different reason... which I forgot :-).

There's always askwoody.com !

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s|b wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:19:25 +0100, NY wrote:

2952664 is on my list of updates not to install because it may try to sneak
on Win10. I think it was mentioned in Computer Active (UK) under their "do
not install" list, along with

It's not W10 you need to worry about, but I was also warned not to
install this one (for a different reason... which I forgot :-).

There's always askwoody.com !


Says "CEIP". Rather than "GWX".

https://www.askwoody.com/tag/kb-2952664/

It just means they're not sneaking enough Cumulatives into Win7,
to get the payload in there.

Paul

On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:13:31 -0400, Paul wrote:

s|b wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:19:25 +0100, NY wrote:
2952664 is on my list of updates not to install
There's always askwoody.com !

Says "CEIP". Rather than "GWX".

https://www.askwoody.com/tag/kb-2952664/

CEIP = Customer Experience Improvement Program, which Microsoft also
calls "telemetry". I don't remember details of what that entails, but
I remember it was a lot of stuff that I don't want Microsoft to have,
thinks like my machine configuration, what software is installed, and
I think logging of at least some keystrokes.

If I weren't so tired, I'd think up an alternative expansion of CEIP.
I'll bet most of you can do better than this: Creepy Extra Invasive
Probing.


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Stan Brown wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:13:31 -0400, Paul wrote:
s|b wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:19:25 +0100, NY wrote:
2952664 is on my list of updates not to install
There's always askwoody.com !
Says "CEIP". Rather than "GWX".

https://www.askwoody.com/tag/kb-2952664/

CEIP = Customer Experience Improvement Program, which Microsoft also
calls "telemetry". I don't remember details of what that entails, but
I remember it was a lot of stuff that I don't want Microsoft to have,
thinks like my machine configuration, what software is installed, and
I think logging of at least some keystrokes.

If I weren't so tired, I'd think up an alternative expansion of CEIP.
I'll bet most of you can do better than this: Creepy Extra Invasive
Probing.


Well, in theory, a developer uses some sort of CEIP API,
to keep track of what happens when their program runs. Maybe
it records max heap and stack, records program crashes (controlled
ones). It's not supposed to be intended for other than that.
It was supposed to help that developer, keep track of
program failures, which can be "fixed in the next update".

The data is stored on a Microsoft server ("vortex") for later.
The Developer then logs in and looks at the variation in
memory usage, crashes, or whatever, over all users of
that program.

How does it really work ? Who knows what else is captured.
You might need to know about other programs, to detect
"conflicts".

Paul

On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 07:53:09 -0700, masonc wrote:
I thought Win 7 was not going to be supported?
Today it says KB2952664 is "important".
Is it still trying to sneak Win 10 ?
Is it safe to accept 29952664?

And an "optional" I did not accept is gone.

Thanks for any comment.

It's an update mainly for the Windows Customer Experience Improvement
Program "feature".

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766341(v=ws.10).aspx

Which is IMO, simply just a user data tracking "feature".