Microsoft to start selling Windows 7 add-on support from April
'Extended Security Updates' will give enterprise customers more time to move off Windows 7 after support ends in January 2020.
'Extended Security Updates' will give enterprise customers more time to move off Windows 7 after support ends in January 2020.
Windows Defender ATP, which can detects ongoing attacks on corporate networks and recommend a response, is now available for Windows 7 and 8.1.
Microsoft has revised its schedule to dump support for an outdated cryptographic hash standard by postponing the deadline for Windows 7.
A Microsoft document offers details on how much it could cost companies to maintain Windows 7 PCs if they don't migrate to Windows 10 by early next year.
Microsoft this week announced that an application compatibility guarantee it gave to enterprises migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 10 has gone global.
It's T-minus one year and counting before Windows 7 exits mainstream support. Let's look at some important numbers for the year ahead.
In less than 14 months, Microsoft's popular Windows 7 runs out of general support, a deadline that's pushing businesses to move up to Windows 10.
The developer agreed to offer 'Windows 7 Extended Security Updates' for three years beyond the operating system's January 2020 retirement date.
Beginning in July, Microsoft will stop participating in several Microsoft Community forums but TechNet support discussion forums will remain unchanged.
Microsoft is releasing new versions of Windows 10 on a set schedule – and just as regularly retiring older versions from support.
But Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs must still contain approved antivirus to receive post-Spectre/Meltdown patches.
Intel urged customers not to deploy firmware updates aimed at the Spectre and Meltdown flaws because the updates caused system instability; Microsoft reacted with its own release – KB4078130 – on Saturday.
The move is designed to patch vulnerabilities in the WPA2 protocol used to secure wireless networks. All supported versions of Windows will get the update.
Microsoft Windows 7 may not be quietly going into the night; new data shows it still runs 54% of all Windows computers.
Windows 7's decline in user share, driven for a year by desertions to Windows 10, has stalled for the last eight months.