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Microsoft warns it will halt mainstream support for Windows 7
Microsoft has issued a warning that they will halt mainstream support for Windows 7 in six months. After that timeframe the OS will go into extended support, this also applies to Office 2010 SP1 and all Windows Server 2008 versions. These all have mainstream support, including the five-year period of free updates such as security patches and new functionality.
The products are now entering the phase of extended support, which only entails free security updates, no new functionality is added. Further extensions and patches may be but these would have to be paid for.
Mainstream support for Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Ultimate, Professional and Enterprise stops on January 13, 2015. The N-variants and Service Pack 1 installation are irrelevant to the expiry of the deadline. The extended support from Microsoft will halt at on 14 January 2020.
Office 2010 Service Pack 1 mainstream support ends October 14, 2014, Windows Server 2008 similar and thus Windows 7, January 13, 2015.
The next version of Windows that will come to a grinding hlat support wise is Windows Vista, it reached EOL on April 11th, 2017. Support for Windows 8 halts completely on January 10, 2023
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#4868836 Posted on: 07/09/2014 12:44 PM
I laugh every time I see a statement like this. Windows 9 is a renamed version of Windows 8.X but people are easy to fool. People need to learn to adapt to newer ways of doing things. Hell my great grand parents dropped the Rolodex to a smartphone.
Win 9 better be good!
I laugh every time I see a statement like this. Windows 9 is a renamed version of Windows 8.X but people are easy to fool. People need to learn to adapt to newer ways of doing things. Hell my great grand parents dropped the Rolodex to a smartphone.
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#4868851 Posted on: 07/09/2014 12:54 PM
Edit- Misread that. Looks like it is true but I have no doubt they will extend mainstream support once the date nears
https://support.microsoft.com/gp/support-reaching-end-2nd
Edit- Misread that. Looks like it is true but I have no doubt they will extend mainstream support once the date nears
https://support.microsoft.com/gp/support-reaching-end-2nd
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#4868854 Posted on: 07/09/2014 12:56 PM
Well that sucks. Also server 2003 EOL is some time next year. I dont know how many businesses will upgrade their servers to 2012.
Well that sucks. Also server 2003 EOL is some time next year. I dont know how many businesses will upgrade their servers to 2012.
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#4868892 Posted on: 07/09/2014 01:56 PM
This has to do with Windows 7 installs without SP1 only. Besides, next year will mean the OS is 6 years old at that point. No big deal and besides, added new stuff would not do businesses any good. (You do not want to start adding stuff and breaking things that worked already on the existing OS installation.)
Edit: Basically, we need to get over ourselves, Microsoft is not a charity.
My guess is they would straight up replace the servers at that point. (An 11 year old server would need replacing anyways.)
This has to do with Windows 7 installs without SP1 only. Besides, next year will mean the OS is 6 years old at that point. No big deal and besides, added new stuff would not do businesses any good. (You do not want to start adding stuff and breaking things that worked already on the existing OS installation.)
Edit: Basically, we need to get over ourselves, Microsoft is not a charity.
Well that sucks. Also server 2003 EOL is some time next year. I dont know how many businesses will upgrade their servers to 2012.
My guess is they would straight up replace the servers at that point. (An 11 year old server would need replacing anyways.)
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The products are now entering the phase of extended support, which only entails free security updates, no new functionality is added.
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7 works fine, security patches is all that is needed really, fair enough people will be p1ssed about new features like DX12 maybe, but all in all, if you want to run a gaming OS with new features, upgrade, if you want 7, it's still gonna run fine and be just as secure
Damn, people still use XP ffs