For users who do not want to upgrade to the latest system, the RPCS3 team recommends using Linux as an alternative, as new versions of RPCS3 will continue to support the Linux operating system.

It is noticed that RPCS3 is an emulator that allows players to run PS3 games and software. Emulators allow players to modify games, unlock framerates, and run at high resolutions.

While the RPCS3 team did not specify why older versions of Windows were abandoned, there may be two reasons:

 easier to develop

 Not many users use older versions of Windows

By ditching older versions of Windows, the RPCS3 team can focus more time on improving the emulator, rather than spending time fixing issues that only affect these older operating systems.

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Google originally planned to stop support for the above three Windows obsolete systems on July 15, 2021, but due to factors such as the new crown epidemic Google postponed the time to July 15, 2022. Then Google postponed it to next Tuesday for various reasons.

Google has previously sent a notice to Chrome users, saying “To get subsequent Google Chrome updates, you need to upgrade to Win10 or higher. The current device is running on Win7”.

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Can a modern Windows operating system run on such a low clock rate CPU? Developer and YouTuber NTDEV has proven it can, successfully booting and using Windows 7 Ultimate from 2009 on a Pentium-S processor downclocked to just 5MHz. That’s a full 995MHz short of Windows 7’s minimum requirement of 1GHz. And the test system has only 128MB of memory, which is far below Windows 7’s minimum requirement of 1GB of memory.

The video shows that the Windows 7 system is actually booted from a virtual machine running in the 86Box emulator, showing its 5.00 MHz clock speed after starting a program, and even running Notepad. It is worth mentioning that the Windows 7 system takes up to 28 minutes to start.

To get Windows 7 to boot and run with such a slow CPU, NTDEV said he had to disable a lot of system resources, which he did by running Safe Mode and disabling most drivers and services so that only three services were running on boot To run, he also had to fix a problem with logonUI.

“The logon screen (logonUI) didn’t want to load when the frequency was below 50MHz,” NTDEV said, “so in order to get to a command prompt, I had to modify the registry and delete the c:\windows\system32\oobe folder everything, putting the OS in a pseudo-OOBE state so that it doesn’t load.”

The system desktop shown by NTDEV in the video has no start menu, no wallpaper, and the theme of the window itself is very simple. In order to start the WCPUID / Real Time Clock Checker application, NTDEV must enter its shortcut in the command prompt name, and so does launching Notepad.

Most impressively, NTDEV was able to run four different programs simultaneously at one point: Command Prompt, WCPUID, Winver (shows Windows 7 version), and Notepad with some text, so it’s a pretty stable system environment.

NTDEV also claims that he has actually run Windows 7 at clock speeds as low as 3MHz, but it wasn’t powerful enough to make interesting videos. He said that in the past he actually used only 36MB of memory running Windows 7, but used 128MB to make the sample system not need a paging file (virtual memory), but in his demo, the system actually used about 70MB.

The storage space used by the virtual machine is also much less than the 16GB listed in the system requirements for Windows 7. NTDEV says the entire installation process used less than 1GB of space, and the operating system’s .wim file disk image was less than 350MB.

NTDEV says he is researching how to get Windows 10 or Windows 11 to run on a processor slower than 1GHz, and he has managed to get Windows XP to run at just 1MHz.

He also said that the 28-plus-minute boot time of a Windows 7 system running on a 5MHz processor was far from the slowest he had ever experienced. “That’s nothing compared to Windows XP running on a 1MHz processor,” he said. “That thing takes 3 hours to boot!”

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At the same time, major software companies will also face a choice: whether they should maintain support for this obsolete operating system for a long time, or drop it the day it is officially no longer maintained.

The end of the Windows 7 life cycle also means the end of support for mainstream browsers, with Google, for example, announcing that it will end support for Google Chrome on Windows 7 and Windows 8 in February 2023.

Chrome users on such operating systems can continue to run Chrome 110, but the browser will not receive any more updates, the company said.

Mozilla is also facing an equally difficult decision. About 15 percent of Firefox users currently use the browser on Windows 7 and 8.1 machines, the company said. While that percentage has dropped significantly over the past few years, it’s almost as much as Firefox’s percentage on all other operating systems.

Firefox now has about 15 percent of its user base on all Linux distributions, Macs, and all other versions of Windows except Win10 (including Windows 8.1).

According to a post on Bugzilla, Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, is considering two options: ending support in the first quarter of 2023, or continuing to update Firefox for older Windows versions through August 2023 until the next updated Extended Support (ESR 114) version is released.

For now, users using Firefox on Windows 7 or 8.1 devices have several options.

Upgrade to Windows 10, which will be supported by Microsoft until 2025.

Continue to use an unsupported version of Firefox on an unsupported version of Windows.

Switch to another supported browser and continue to use the unsupported version of Windows.

Migrate to Linux and run Firefox on Linux.

The development team says that ditching Windows 7 and version 8.1 of Firefox in early 2023 will make their lives a little easier because there will no longer be a need to prepare the Windows 7 test environment. At the same time, it’s “not the end of the world” to keep Firefox browsers running for a while longer, considering they still have “a lot of Windows 7 users.

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However, with the upcoming release of Google Chrome 110, the number of supported operating systems will be reduced by two. That means that early next year, Google will drop support for its web browser on Windows 7 and 8.1. In other words, if you use Microsoft’s desktop operating system, you will need to be running at least on top of Windows 10 or 11.

“With the release of Chrome 110 (tentatively scheduled for February 7, 2023), we will officially end support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. You’ll need to make sure your device is running Windows 10 or later to continue receiving future Chrome version updates. This coincides with the end of Microsoft’s extended support for Windows 7 ESU and Windows 8.1 on January 10, 2023,” explained James Abercrombia, GoogleChrome support manager.

Older versions of Chrome will continue to work, but no further updates will be released for users of these operating systems,” Abercrombia added. If you are currently using Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, we encourage you to move to a supported version of Windows before that date to ensure you continue to receive the latest security updates and Chrome features.”

Continuing to use an unsupported version of Google Chrome on Windows 7 and 8.1 is technically okay, but it would be less than wise for those users to no longer receive updates and patches to prevent vulnerabilities that make them vulnerable to hacking, and there’s really no reason to still be using Windows 7 or 8.1 in 2023 anyway.

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As for why it is January 10, 2023, because Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have long ceased to be supported, but Microsoft still provides ESU extended support to paying enterprise customers, and extended support ends on this date.

After the operating system completely ceased support Microsoft continues to provide Microsoft 365 support has not been too meaningful, after all, Microsoft is mainly for enterprise customers before.

According to Microsoft’s announcement to January 10, 2023, Windows 7/8.1/Server 2008 R2 will not get any security updates, even for paid ESU users, and similarly, Microsoft 365 will not get any updates, users who want to use new versions of Microsoft 365 or get security updates must If you want to use the new version of Microsoft 365 or get security update support, you must upgrade to a supported operating system.

The minimum supported operating system is Windows 10 LTSB 2015 Enterprise Edition or Windows 10 20H2 Consumer/Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2016 Edition.

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