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Windows 7 support to end in January 2015

  • 10-07-2014 11:55am
    #1
    one man clappin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭


    As per title, Microsoft to end support for Windows 7 in January 2015.

    Linky

    Terrible decision if true, as all the companies that we have installed Pc's for to upgrade from XP are Windows 7 as Windows 8 causes too much trouble.


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  • #2
    rozeboosje
    Closed Accounts Posts: 857 ✭✭✭rozeboosje


    It isn't "ending support", it's entering "extended support", or, as the boys and girls at "Tom's hardware" put it:

    Windows 7 will exit Mainstream Support and enter the Extended Support phase on January 13, 2015. That means Windows 7 customers will still obtain security fixes until 2020, but the platform will no longer receive cool new features. This change affects all ten versions of the Windows 7 platform.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-update-extended-mainstream-support,27220.html


  • #3
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,848 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    Yeah, there's a huge difference between "Extended Support" and "no longer supported". By comparison, XP entered Extended Support in 2009

    EDIT: Jaysus, I just read the article in the OP. That is utter nonsense, either written by someone with no knowledge of the subject, or it's click bait

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  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,814 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    If you take Moore's law, the average life of a hard drive , and the lower energy usage of newer machines there are diminishing returns for a company keeping old boxes on life support.

    And XP got several extensions too.


  • #5
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,343 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    Thats one of the most misleading articles ever. People have no need to worry until the security updates stop, a-la XP in April.


  • #6
    rozeboosje
    Closed Accounts Posts: 857 ✭✭✭rozeboosje


    PropJoe10 wrote: »
    Thats one of the most misleading articles ever. People have no need to worry until the security updates stop, a-la XP in April.

    And even then.... I keep XP on a VM, mostly to check if some of the old crapola we still support and occasionally maintain is still working after a rebuild, and I have noticed several "windows updates" even after April :-)


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  • #7
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,343 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    rozeboosje wrote: »
    And even then.... I keep XP on a VM, mostly to check if some of the old crapola we still support and occasionally maintain is still working after a rebuild, and I have noticed several "windows updates" even after April :-)

    I still use XP on my multimedia system, I see no real reason to move from it. Although I did employ that registry hack which pulls a few updates in now and again :) Microsoft are still providing updates for the malicious software removal tool through Windows Update, its probably those that you are seeing every patch Tuesday.


  • #8
    rozeboosje
    Closed Accounts Posts: 857 ✭✭✭rozeboosje


    Yup. That's what I'm getting. Not bad for something THAT old.


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