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Microsoft Ends Windows 7 Support in 2020, companies can buy security updates up-to 2023
If you're still on Windows 7, Microsoft will be ending support for it in 2020. Organizations, however, can purchase an extended contract for support.
Through the way of extra dough, all of the sudden support will continue to provide paid support for Windows 7 until January 2023, including security updates. This scheme is called Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) and will be per device, also that contract price will increase each year. The Extended Security Updates will be available for Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise customers with Volume Licensing. Also, Office 365 ProPlus will be supported on devices with an active Windows 7 ESU subscription till 2023. Customers that are in the ESU program will be able to continue to use the Office suite this way.
Though Windows 10 is closing in, Windows 7 actually still has a market share of nearly 40%.
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#5583098 Posted on: 09/10/2018 05:56 PM
I really dont understand why people stick with w7 and dont use w10. Why? In my opinion w10 is a fine OS...
I really dont understand why people stick with w7 and dont use w10. Why? In my opinion w10 is a fine OS...
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#5583104 Posted on: 09/10/2018 06:05 PM
Happy with Win 10, it's as good as Win 7 if not better.
I wonder how many of those Win 10 crybabies will move to Linux... oh that's right... none.
If crybaby is your criteria, then count me in. Care to check my diaper?
Oh, well sarcasm is not my strong points.
As I stated so my times before:
Nothing is forever, and bigger the confidence, bigger the downfall. When average Joe will realize that he can do 80% or more the stuff that he needs in Linux environment, and get better, faster, more secure OS with no telemetry, no stupid updates, and no licence, Microsoft will be in a very awkward situation.
Maybe they have to pay us in order to use their malware OS.
Happy with Win 10, it's as good as Win 7 if not better.
I wonder how many of those Win 10 crybabies will move to Linux... oh that's right... none.
If crybaby is your criteria, then count me in. Care to check my diaper?
Oh, well sarcasm is not my strong points.
As I stated so my times before:
Nothing is forever, and bigger the confidence, bigger the downfall. When average Joe will realize that he can do 80% or more the stuff that he needs in Linux environment, and get better, faster, more secure OS with no telemetry, no stupid updates, and no licence, Microsoft will be in a very awkward situation.
Maybe they have to pay us in order to use their malware OS.
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#5583109 Posted on: 09/10/2018 06:14 PM
Happy with Win 10, it's as good as Win 7 if not better.
I wonder how many of those Win 10 crybabies will move to Linux... oh that's right... none.
I agree with the former (I actually don't think W10 is that bad), but not the latter. First of all, a lot of those "crybabies" just use W7. Secondly, just this month I have finally ditched Windows 10 from my gaming PC.
Happy with Win 10, it's as good as Win 7 if not better.
I wonder how many of those Win 10 crybabies will move to Linux... oh that's right... none.
I agree with the former (I actually don't think W10 is that bad), but not the latter. First of all, a lot of those "crybabies" just use W7. Secondly, just this month I have finally ditched Windows 10 from my gaming PC.
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#5583116 Posted on: 09/10/2018 06:23 PM
Windows 7 was released in 2009. It will reach EOL in 2020. That's 11 years.
I've been using Linux for a long time and find it funny that people think switching to Linux will give them a support period longer than 11 years... Go download Ubuntu 9.04 from 2009. See how well that works for you.
If you go Linux and don't like to install a new OS version every year, you'd need to use a rolling release distro like Arch. But if you're a new Linux user and don't know yet what you're doing, it's not gonna work out that well.
Microsoft provides the longest support out of ANY desktop operating system vendor out there.
Windows 7 was released in 2009. It will reach EOL in 2020. That's 11 years.
I've been using Linux for a long time and find it funny that people think switching to Linux will give them a support period longer than 11 years... Go download Ubuntu 9.04 from 2009. See how well that works for you.
If you go Linux and don't like to install a new OS version every year, you'd need to use a rolling release distro like Arch. But if you're a new Linux user and don't know yet what you're doing, it's not gonna work out that well.
Microsoft provides the longest support out of ANY desktop operating system vendor out there.
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Happy with Win 10, it's as good as Win 7 if not better.
I wonder how many of those Win 10 crybabies will move to Linux... oh that's right... none.
Well i´m already testing Manjaro on my laptop and there´s a very big chance i´m going to jump to Linux because i really dislike W10... Hope they fix gaming on Linux until then.