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In Six Months, Microsoft Will Pull The Plug On Windows 7 Support
Business Insider ^ | 7-8-2014 | JULIE BORT

Posted on 07/08/2014 10:05:09 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

Microsoft will end free mainstream support for Windows 7 on January 13, 2015.

That means no more security patches if hackers find holes, no more updated features or performance improvements.

This move will mostly affect consumers. Businesses that pay for extended Windows 7 support, as most of them do, will be supported for another five years, until January 14, 2020.

That's important, because many businesses are right now are in the process of upgrading their old Windows XP PCs, but they're moving to Windows 7, not Windows 8.

There's some speculation that, given the popularity of Windows 7, Microsoft might change its mind as the date nears and continue to support it a bit longer, like it did for Windows XP.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.in ...


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KEYWORDS: gooduntil2020; hoax; microsoft
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Still on xp here.
1 posted on 07/08/2014 10:05:09 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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Looks like the loons at MS aren’t about giving the customers what they want.


2 posted on 07/08/2014 10:06:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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Oh well, this laptop was good to me while it lasted. [gives it a pat]


3 posted on 07/08/2014 10:06:30 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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ping


4 posted on 07/08/2014 10:07:25 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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Dont they still support vista?


5 posted on 07/08/2014 10:07:45 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Actually security patches will continue to 2020


6 posted on 07/08/2014 10:08:15 AM PDT by Voltage
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To: Citizen Zed

End of life six years after its introduction? That’s quick.


7 posted on 07/08/2014 10:08:26 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: Citizen Zed

As if I (a single user) give a damn. First thing I did when I booted up my new PC with Win 7 was turn OFF automatic updates. I’ve had it, oh I don’t know, at least 4 years. Not done one patch or update.

You know what they call the first 5 million purchasers of a new Windows version? Beta testers.


8 posted on 07/08/2014 10:09:05 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Citizen Zed

This cannot be true. Windows 7 is the most popular OS out there right now.


9 posted on 07/08/2014 10:09:27 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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That would be pure insanity


10 posted on 07/08/2014 10:10:03 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Citizen Zed

Microsoft is getting desperate for more income. So, throw all their older customers under the bus, for extorted sales.


11 posted on 07/08/2014 10:10:23 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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>> End of life six years after its introduction? That’s quick.

Our betters at Microsoft have decided that we’ll like Win8 better when we have no choice but to use it.


12 posted on 07/08/2014 10:12:02 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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I bought a new PC that came with 8 and I don’t care for it but I might as well learn to support it.


13 posted on 07/08/2014 10:14:19 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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Apple provides OS-X upgrades for free.


14 posted on 07/08/2014 10:15:20 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: GeronL

actually XP was.


15 posted on 07/08/2014 10:17:22 AM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: reg45

sure, you just pay for those updates up front when you buy the hardware.

Also they EOL hardware by writing support for older hardware out of the updates.


16 posted on 07/08/2014 10:18:55 AM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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XP: support ended in 2009(hot fixes for the OS), but extended support (fixes for security) lasted until April 2014. Thats 2009 1st class support ended, then until 2014 for security patches!

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Same for Win 7 : Jan 2015 followed by another date presumably in 2020.

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17 posted on 07/08/2014 10:21:38 AM PDT by RBStealth (--raised by wolves, disciplined and educated by nuns.)
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To: Citizen Zed

If that’s true, it’s Linux time.


18 posted on 07/08/2014 10:21:44 AM PDT by Disambiguator (#cornedbeef)
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So following the XP pattern, people will be dumping Win 7 in 2020.


19 posted on 07/08/2014 10:23:33 AM PDT by RBStealth (--raised by wolves, disciplined and educated by nuns.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Hope Win 9 is out by then, because 8.1 sux. One of the problems they fail to mention, aside from its horrible interface, is that it is a huge memory hog because it has “overflows” built into it. So 8 MB of RAM is the least you can do with, and even then you will grind to a halt and all your programs will go dark every now and then. So you have to shut down and clear everything.

Seriously horrible design. Win 7 was very good and stable, much more so than XP, but none of the 8 family is worth a dime.


20 posted on 07/08/2014 10:24:18 AM PDT by livius
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