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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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Officially, Microsoft stopped releasing automatic public updates for Windows XP over a month ago after over 12 years. Now a registry hack has been found that, when placed in the OS, allows it to con...
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#4868997 Posted on: 07/09/2014 03:54 PM
And what exactly might you recommend we move up to and leave behind the computer? By the way, there are some indications that Windows 9 will not be a reimagined Windows 8.
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.
And what exactly might you recommend we move up to and leave behind the computer? By the way, there are some indications that Windows 9 will not be a reimagined Windows 8.
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#4869000 Posted on: 07/09/2014 03:57 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.
I think people mean it in terms of Microsoft not seemingly paying much attention to feedback, and turning their back on conventional wisdom in relation to what people expect from an OS. Vista was a WIP and I think so it Windows 8.x, and it's not just about the GUI, it's about the experience.
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.
I think people mean it in terms of Microsoft not seemingly paying much attention to feedback, and turning their back on conventional wisdom in relation to what people expect from an OS. Vista was a WIP and I think so it Windows 8.x, and it's not just about the GUI, it's about the experience.
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#4869002 Posted on: 07/09/2014 03:59 PM
What indications? It sure will not be a rerelease of Windows 7 from what I can see.
And what exactly might you recommend we move up to and leave behind the computer? By the way, there are some indications that Windows 9 will not be a reimagined Windows 8.
What indications? It sure will not be a rerelease of Windows 7 from what I can see.
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#4869018 Posted on: 07/09/2014 04:13 PM
It's gonna be a long walk home...
"The extended support from Microsoft will halt at on 14 January 2020."
Shiver me timbers (with laughter, that is)...
It's gonna be a long walk home...
"The extended support from Microsoft will halt at on 14 January 2020."
Shiver me timbers (with laughter, that is)...
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Bingo!!