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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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Microsoft introduced the Surface Pro 3, a new laptop-replacement tablet with a 12" Full HD screen. Today we announced Surface Pro 3. It’s the tablet that can replace your laptop. Acc...
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#4868913 Posted on: 07/09/2014 02:13 PM
Windows 8.1 is vista2? Right..
If you can't cope with "new" GUI that doesn't automatically make it Vista2, have some common sense people. Win7 actually looks more like Vista then anything else, Imo Win7 should be that Vista2.
Windows 8.1 is vista2? Right..
If you can't cope with "new" GUI that doesn't automatically make it Vista2, have some common sense people. Win7 actually looks more like Vista then anything else, Imo Win7 should be that Vista2.
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#4868934 Posted on: 07/09/2014 02:29 PM
Windows 8.1 is vista2? Right..
If you can't cope with "new" GUI that doesn't automatically make it Vista2, have some common sense people. Win7 actually looks more like Vista then anything else, Imo Win7 should be that Vista2.
Very well said. I doubt that Windows 8 had the driver issues that Vista had either. I wonder how many people complained about the switch from Windows 3.11 that didn't have the start menu to Windows 95 which introduced it?
Windows 8.1 is vista2? Right..
If you can't cope with "new" GUI that doesn't automatically make it Vista2, have some common sense people. Win7 actually looks more like Vista then anything else, Imo Win7 should be that Vista2.
Very well said. I doubt that Windows 8 had the driver issues that Vista had either. I wonder how many people complained about the switch from Windows 3.11 that didn't have the start menu to Windows 95 which introduced it?
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#4868963 Posted on: 07/09/2014 03:12 PM
windows 7 already works well and as long as its secure im happy.
windows 7 already works well and as long as its secure im happy.
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#4868967 Posted on: 07/09/2014 03:13 PM
I'n going to hold my breath!
Win 9 better be good!
I'n going to hold my breath!
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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.)
Well yes very true. Even upgrading to Server 2008 would probably require replacing the server as well.