Windows 7 updates will stop Janurary 2020!

Microsoft really, really wants you to know that Windows 7's security updates will end soon. A newly deployed update will warn users that Microsoft will stop providing security updates for the operating system after January 14th, 2020, with a not-so-subtle reminder that the software has been around for 10 years. The updates should start appearing on April 18th. The alert will be hard to miss when it arrives the first time, though you'll thankfully have the option of disabling future reminders.

Many people are likely to see the notice. Net Applications data suggested that Windows 7 represented nearly 40.2 percent of desktop usage as of February, or slightly more than were using Windows 10. Whether or not they can heed the message is another story. Many of those people are either on PCs that would struggle with Windows 10 or are using corporate machines where OS updates might be out of their control. Microsoft is no doubt hoping that the message will persuade at least some of those holdouts, though.

There is a strong incentive to make the jump, at least for businesses and institutions. Once official support ends, Microsoft only provides consistent security updates to companies that pay for extended support, which ends in 2023. It'll make very rare exceptions for instances like the WannaCry ransomware outbreak. Although a Windows 10 upgrade won't necessarily guarantee protection against security threats, it'll at least prevent attacks where solutions have existed for years.

Source - Engadget

💦 iPhone 6s water-damage repair 💦

This was a challenging one!

Thank you to our customer for bringing us this phone today! We love a good challenge!

The phone was full of water and would not boot.
First thing we do is open the phone and get the motherboard out

Its essential to remove the shielding on the board and properly clean it
Not all repairshops do this correctly!

We scrub the board with IPA to displace any water or corrosion

Then we test and reassemble!

Unfortunately this phone had a bunch of broken parts which we replaced for our customer

Please remember everybody!!


Do not put your phone in rice if it gets wet!

Turn it off... and bring it to a repairshop right away!