Disabling Java

Mine was disabled because I didn't update my software, and I cant do half the sites, which irritates me but then I am too lazy to upgrade my software.

I have not disabled it, and haven't noticed anything to be extremely concerned about as of yet. Haven't heard of a widespread outbreak of "people being hacked" because they had java enabled on their browsers, I doubt that is the case and it's most likely a precautionary move by Microsoft/Java. It would probably have to be disabled (By choice of course) until a patch by either Microsoft or java is released, who knows what that will be. If I am required to disable java throughout my entire PC and not just through my browser, then I stubbornly won't even bother to consider the such because I play a game called Minecraft at least one hour a day, which is developed straight out of the java platform. I wouldn't worry about it too much, but it's always good to have backups of things you wouldn't ever want to lose (Pictures, documents, phone numbers etc..)