I have all Win 7 updates turned off. Always have had. You said it well: Right. The security updates that aren't. A complete contradiction in terms. Win 7 will be the last windoze I use....to police MS from delivering 'security updates' that violate the privacy of myself and my family at home.
Erm. That's really dangerous. Yes, updates often come with privacy violations. They also come with security fixes. Hackers actually look at those fixes, and retroactively write viruses exploiting them. Because of how many people don't stay updated. I'm not a Windows fan. All my personal machines run Linux. But not keeping up-to-date with security patches, on any operating system, is exceedingly dangerous.I have all Win 7 updates turned off
I'll be watching you. And I'm going to laugh if, in five years when/if the next Windows come out (IIRC they planned on making Windows 11 just "Windows" and have rolling updates maybe?), you go and say "Win 10 will be the last windoze I use". I've seen it happen for every single OS since Windows 98. "Oh, Win2000 sucks, Windoze 98 will be the last windows I use". "Oh, Vista sucks, WinXP will be the last Windows I use." "Oh, I don't like 8.1, Win7 will be the last Windows I use."
That IS entirely fair. But I'd dare to say that you're a minority of people who legitimately stuck to their words. It sounds like "I'm not using this ever again" is more of a complaint than a statement nowadays.