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unknown", "why_it_matters": "Edition affects available capabilities and the applicability of maintenance or migration paths." }, { "name": "Operating-system architecture", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "x86; x64; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Constrains drivers, applications and replacement choices independently of processor capability." }, { "name": "Servicing baseline", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed build, service-pack level and installed-update evidence, with inspection date", "why_it_matters": "A Windows 7 label alone does not establish update applicability or patch coverage." }, { "name": "Activation condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed activation status; not inspected; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Identifies activation-related constraints while keeping activation separate from proof of permitted use." }, { "name": "Support applicability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Installation linked to dated lifecycle evidence and any documented support arrangement", "why_it_matters": "Support must be assessed for the actual product, date and arrangement rather than inferred from installed updates." }, { "name": "Boot and recovery condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Normal boot verified; degraded boot; recovery-only; unbootable; untested, with recovery evidence", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent can inspect or repair the installation without first securing a recovery path." }, { "name": "Network exposure", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Offline; restricted network; general internal network; internet-connected; directly reachable from untrusted networks; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Exposure changes the acceptability of continued operation and the urgency of containment." }, { "name": "Legacy dependency", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Installation linked to applications, peripherals or workflows with documented Windows 7 requirements", "why_it_matters": "Makes preservation or migration decisions depend on demonstrated needs rather than assumed incompatibility." } ], "affordances": [ "Inspect and corroborate Windows 7 edition, architecture, service-pack level and installation provenance.", "Evaluate update applicability and support evidence for the identified Windows 7 installation.", "Test required applications, device drivers and workflows against explicit acceptance criteria.", "Restrict connectivity and privileges when authorised to contain an installation's exposure.", "Create and verify a recoverable image before authorised servicing or migration.", "Plan and validate migration, controlled legacy operation or retirement using recorded dependencies." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-windows-7", "title": "Windows 7. 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Microsoft Support, Microsoft", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "End of security-update servicing for retail/OEM Windows 7, and the practical consequence that remaining instances are out of Microsoft's ordinary patch channel" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "windows-7-identity", "name": "Windows 7 identity", "description": "Establishes which Windows product and variant the evidence actually describes.", "rationale": "Windows 7 can be confused with related NT 6.1 products, embedded variants and compatibility environments.", "layers": [ { "id": "product-family-boundary", "name": "Product-family boundary", "description": "Separates Windows 7 client installations from adjacent products and representations.", "findings": [ { "id": "corroborated-client-identity", "name": "Corroborated client identity", "description": "Record the evidence supporting Windows 7 client identity and any contradictory product labels.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which installed-system records and system-file evidence identify this as Windows 7?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "corroborated-client-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence instead identify Windows Server 2008 R2, an embedded product, installation media or a recovery environment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "corroborated-client-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "edition-architecture-baseline", "name": "Edition, architecture and baseline", "description": "Identifies the Windows 7 variant needed for subsequent compatibility and servicing judgments.", "findings": [ { "id": "installed-variant", "name": "Installed variant", "description": "Record edition, regional variant where relevant, operating-system architecture, build and service-pack level.", "questions": [ { "text": "What edition, x86 or x64 architecture, build and service-pack level are reported by the installation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "installed-variant-q01" }, { "text": "Do offline image metadata and running-system observations agree on this Windows 7 variant?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "installed-variant-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "installation-and-use-basis", "name": "Installation and use basis", "description": "Connects an installed Windows 7 instance to its origin, activation condition and documented basis for use.", "rationale": "Recovery, relocation and continued operation can depend on installation history and licence terms that activation alone does not establish.", "layers": [ { "id": "installation-lineage", "name": "Installation lineage", "description": "Tracks the source and transformations of the Windows 7 installation.", "findings": [ { "id": "image-and-host-history", "name": "Image and host history", "description": "Record whether the installation originated from OEM recovery, retail media, organisational deployment or another evidenced source.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies the original Windows 7 media or deployment image and subsequent rebuilds?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "image-and-host-history-q01" }, { "text": "Has this installation been cloned, restored onto different hardware or converted into a virtual machine?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "image-and-host-history-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "activation-and-entitlement", "name": "Activation and entitlement", "description": "Separates technical activation observations from documented permissions.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-installation-actions", "name": "Permitted installation actions", "description": "Record activation condition and the evidence needed to judge restoration, transfer or virtualisation without storing secret product keys.", "questions": [ { "text": "What activation status and licensing channel can be established without exposing a full product key?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "permitted-installation-actions-q01" }, { "text": "Which applicable licence documents and approvals govern restoring, moving or virtualising this Windows 7 installation?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-installation-actions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "servicing-and-support", "name": "Servicing and support", "description": "Assesses the installation's update baseline and the dated evidence for available maintenance.", "rationale": "A working Windows 7 installation can have substantial servicing gaps, and historic update receipt does not establish present support.", "layers": [ { "id": "update-baseline", "name": "Update baseline", "description": "Relates installed packages and servicing prerequisites to the identified Windows 7 variant.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-update-evidence", "name": "Applicable update evidence", "description": "Record installed and failed updates, pending servicing operations and prerequisites relevant to proposed updates.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which installed-package records and servicing logs establish the Windows 7 update baseline?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "applicable-update-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which service-pack, servicing-stack or signing-support prerequisites must be verified before applying the proposed update?", "kind": "action", "id": "applicable-update-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dated-maintenance-coverage", "name": "Dated maintenance coverage", "description": "Distinguishes historical lifecycle phases from maintenance actually available to this installation.", "findings": [ { "id": "support-claim-applicability", "name": "Support claim applicability", "description": "Record authoritative lifecycle evidence and the scope of any claimed extended or third-party maintenance arrangement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated provider evidence establishes support availability for this exact Windows 7 product and edition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "support-claim-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "Does a cited update or support entitlement apply to this installation, or only to another product, period or deployment arrangement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "support-claim-applicability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legacy-workload-compatibility", "name": "Legacy workload compatibility", "description": "Establishes what the Windows 7 installation must run and which dependencies make replacement difficult.", "rationale": "An agent needs demonstrated application and device requirements to judge whether retaining Windows 7 serves a necessary function.", "layers": [ { "id": "application-execution", "name": "Application execution", "description": "Captures required application versions, runtimes and execution conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-windows-7-dependency", "name": "Verified Windows 7 dependency", "description": "Record reproducible workflow requirements and distinguish tested constraints from unsupported assumptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which required workflows have been tested on this Windows 7 edition and architecture, with what results?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "verified-windows-7-dependency-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence shows that a workflow requires Windows 7 rather than a particular runtime, privilege setting or application configuration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "verified-windows-7-dependency-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "device-and-driver-fit", "name": "Device and driver fit", "description": "Relates Windows 7 to the drivers and peripherals required for useful operation.", "findings": [ { "id": "required-driver-chain", "name": "Required driver chain", "description": "Record required devices, installed driver versions and recoverable driver sources for the operating-system architecture.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which required devices lack a functioning driver on this Windows 7 installation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "required-driver-chain-q01" }, { "text": "Where are verified compatible drivers available for restoring this installation, and what evidence establishes their origin?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "required-driver-chain-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exposure-and-containment", "name": "Exposure and containment", "description": "Assesses reachable services, access controls and the practical boundaries of continued Windows 7 operation.", "rationale": "Bootability and application compatibility do not establish that a Windows 7 installation is acceptable for its network and workload.", "layers": [ { "id": "reachable-legacy-services", "name": "Reachable legacy services", "description": "Records actual network reachability and enabled remote-access or file-sharing services.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-service-exposure", "name": "Observed service exposure", "description": "Record exposure of services such as Remote Desktop and SMB, including protocol configuration and observed access paths.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Windows 7 services are reachable from each relevant network, and which SMB protocol versions are enabled?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-service-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "Which reachable services are 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"recovery-and-exit", "name": "Recovery and exit", "description": "Determines how to recover the installation and how to end or constrain dependence on Windows 7.", "rationale": "Servicing or migration can fail unless boot recovery, legacy dependencies and restoration constraints are understood first.", "layers": [ { "id": "boot-and-restoration-readiness", "name": "Boot and restoration readiness", "description": "Assesses current startup condition and whether recovery resources match the installation.", "findings": [ { "id": "tested-recovery-path", "name": "Tested recovery path", "description": "Record boot failures, recovery-environment availability, verified images and restoration dependencies.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does Windows 7 boot normally, and what evidence identifies any startup or system-integrity failure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tested-recovery-path-q01" }, { "text": "Has restoration been tested with suitable recovery media, storage drivers and any required 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"evidence": [ "Microsoft Software License Terms (EULA) for the relevant OEM, retail, or volume-license channel, issued by Microsoft", "Microsoft Fixed Lifecycle Policy for Windows 7 (mainstream end 13 January 2015; extended end 14 January 2020), issued by Microsoft", "Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, issued by Microsoft as a paid, time-boxed add-on after extended support", "Windows Hardware Quality Labs / Windows Hardware Certification requirements for signed drivers, issued by Microsoft", "Common Criteria evaluations of Windows 7 as a client OS, issued under national CC schemes (including NIAP in the United States)", "FIPS 140-2 validation of Windows cryptographic modules used on Windows 7, overseen by NIST (CMVP)", "European Commission Microsoft media-player tying remedies, which produced the N editions without Windows Media Player", "South Korea Fair Trade Commission remedies, which produced the KN editions without Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Windows 7 this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Shipped as the OEM desktop and laptop OS on most consumer and business PCs from late 2009 through the Windows 8 transition", "Run as a domain-joined, Group Policy-managed workstation in enterprises throughout the 2010s (Professional and Enterprise)", "Still found after end of support on shop-floor controllers, medical and laboratory instruments, kiosks, and air-gapped industrial PCs that cannot move off a vendor-certified image", "Used as a DirectX 11 gaming and multimedia client in its supported lifetime", "Hosted Windows XP Mode (Virtual PC) on Professional and higher for 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NT-based industry SKUs are named Embedded Standard 7, POSReady 7, or Thin PC" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Windows 7 this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does registry entry vr.tr.windows-7 denote the Windows 7 product family, individual installations or both, and how should that interpretation fit its PHY / PHY.OBJ placement?", "Are Windows Embedded Standard 7, Windows Embedded POSReady 7 and similarly branded derivatives separate registry concepts, or does this entry explicitly include any of them?", "Which authoritative lifecycle and servicing sources establish the exact edition-specific support periods, update prerequisites and exceptions that the completed model should reference?", "Which licensing sources establish restoration, hardware-transfer and virtualisation permissions for the installation channels the model must cover?", "What evidence threshold and organisational authority should determine whether a Windows 7 dependency justifies continued isolated operation?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 13, "findings": 20, "questions": 32 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "unclassified", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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"stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Windows 7 is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Windows 7 sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Windows 7, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Windows 7, by which method, and when was it 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