Badcam3 Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Licensing and support lifecycles are not really the easiest topics to illustrate. Windows 7's five years of extended support will expire on January 14, 2020—exactly one year from today. After this date, security fixes will no longer be freely available for the operating system that's This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . As always, the end of free support does not mean the end of support entirely. Microsoft has long offered paid support options for its operating systems beyond their normal lifetime, and Windows 7 is no different. What is different is the way that paid support will be offered. For previous versions of Windows, companies had to enter into a support contract of some kind to continue to receive patches. For Windows 7, however, the extra patches will simply be an optional extra that can be added to an existing volume license subscription—no separate support contract needed—on a per-device basis. These This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up (ESU) will be available for three years after the 2020 cut-off, with prices escalating each year. As an alternative, Microsoft is offering all three years of ESUs to customers of the new This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up (WVD) service at no extra cost. This service offers cloud-hosted virtual machines running Windows 7 plus whatever applications are needed, and those virtual machines will continue to be patched into 2023. WVD uses existing Windows Enterprise E3 licenses, and it runs on the full range of Azure virtual machines, with no additional costs incurred. This includes, for example, GPU-equipped VMs, meaning that WVD should be usable for a wide range of workloads, just as long as running them in the cloud in the first place is acceptable. Office 365 ProPlus—the name given to the continuously updated subscription version of Office—will continue to be supported on Windows 7, but only with the ESUs applied. Similar policies exist for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. These also drop out of free support in one year. For on-premises deployments, customers will be able to buy the Extended Security Updates, but workloads in Azure will receive all three years of fixes for free. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenstorm Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 "Windows 7 is too good and people won't upgrade to Windows 10!" "I have an idea, let's terminate support for it!" "Genius!" 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MobCat Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 this windows support from Microsoft thing is kinda a pain I mean you can still get support for windows xp if your a bank or something but your going to pay out the butt for it. most banks use windows 7 now days but yeah it a little had to follow as one have of Microsoft say one thing and the other half sais another 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badcam3 Posted January 15, 2019 Author Share Posted January 15, 2019 @Ravenstorm @MobCatit's the same with with any old product. You can't expect it to be updated forever. if that was the case we would still be on windows xp because in 2014, 13 years after its release it was still the second most used OS after windows 7. And windows 7 is turning 10 years old. Only after discontinuing support did it finally die. Yea you might prefer windows 7 over 10. But for most people Windows 10 is fine if not even better due to all the new and amazing features that come with it. You can disable all of the telemetry if you really wanted to. Just like windows xp. you guys can't expect a 10 year old OS to still be supported. Just imagine if Google or Apple still supported the launch OS that came with the iPhone or the first android phone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenstorm Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 My jokes never seem to come through.. oOo I need to be like those Elcor in Mass Effect and end my sentences with [Stated jokingly] more. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badcam3 Posted January 15, 2019 Author Share Posted January 15, 2019 I find putting /s on the end of a post might help sometimes. I can't tell whats a joke and whats not a joke sometimes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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