Microsoft’s common Home windows 7 working system reached the top of its help lifecycle in January 2020. The corporate launched ESU, Prolonged Safety Updates, for Home windows 7 and Home windows Server 2008 on the identical time. Formally solely obtainable for companies and Enterprise clients, ESU assured a help extension by as much as three years.
January 2022 marks the top of the second yr of ESU for Home windows 7, and the yr that begins afterwards would be the final. Microsoft introduced this week that it will not prolong the ESU program for Home windows 7 after January 2023. Organizations and companies that also use Home windows 7 gadgets will not obtain updates anymore for the working system after January 2023.
For Home windows 7 SP1 and Home windows 7 Skilled for Embedded Programs, the Prolonged Safety Replace (ESU) Program can be getting into its third and closing yr of prolonged help starting on February 8, 2022 and ending on January 10, 2023.
For Server, issues are a bit completely different. Home windows Server 2008 merchandise will obtain an extension, by a yr, based on Microsoft.
For Home windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Home windows Server 2008 SP2, Home windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 for Embedded Programs and Home windows Server 2008 SP2 for Embedded Programs if working on Microsoft Azure, ESU can have one extra yr of prolonged help obtainable starting on February 14, 2023, ending on January 9, 2024.
It’s unclear at this level whether or not the worth of a yr 4 ESU subscription will double once more. When Microsoft launched ESU, it revealed that the pricing of it will double annually. The price of ESU for Home windows 7 Skilled is $200 per gadget within the third yr, for Home windows 7 Enterprise $100 per gadget within the third yr.
The Enterprise version prices for ESU are additionally the prices that Home windows Server clients need to pay to increase help for a server product. Microsoft didn’t reveal if it plans to double the worth within the fourth yr once more; this might attain $200 for the fourth yr if true.
Closing Phrases
Help for Home windows 7 ends on January 10, 2023 and it appears to be like as if there isn’t any choice to increase help additional. Whereas Microsoft did launch safety updates for out of help gadgets often prior to now, there isn’t any assure that it’ll accomplish that for Home windows 7. Third-party choices, just like the one offered by 0Patch, could also be price a glance if help must be prolonged.
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Microsoft will not prolong Home windows 7 Prolonged Safety Updates. Server will get one other yr
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Microsoft will prolong its Prolonged Safety Replace program for Home windows Server for one more yr, however will finish help for Home windows 7 on January 10, 2023.
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