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Windows 7 mainstream support to end in Jan 2015
TheTruth1983
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/07/10/microsoft-windows-7-mainstream-support/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Wow, I would have expected at least a few more years considering how long XP was supported.
Security updates will continue until April 2017 when extended support will end.
Wow, I would have expected at least a few more years considering how long XP was supported.
Security updates will continue until April 2017 when extended support will end.
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They will, especially by business. The company I work for just spent a fortune upgrading from XP to 7 and I am sure they want more than 3 or 4 years of security updates before they have to go through it all again.
Having totally disabled Update that's not going to impact on me either (apart from Manual updates to MSE). As long as Microsoft keep the technical database and downloads available I'm happy. I wonder if they'll still update MSE or whether that'll go too? I suppose MSE is regarded as a stand alone program rather than tied to W7.
public release, and go into Extended support. XP had support extended due to it's popularity, and there'll
be plenty of demands for Microsoft to do the same for W7 when it gets close to the end of it's support.
Of course by abandoning the leaky boat they think they can better profit from Windows 9.
I hope they do. I really thought they would have kept Windows 7 going until about 2018.
Yep! I predict that Windows 7 will become the XP of the 2010s. People will refuse to upgrade
They are supporting it until 2020 hardly abandoning it
Yep, so there's no need to worry at all as we can see from the official lifecycle factsheet here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/lifecycle.
There'll be plenty of time to see what Windows 9 and 10 will be like and then change to one of those two operating systems.
Amazing. You post a link that have obviously haven't read at all, or have severe difficulty understanding.
Where does it say that in the link? Nowhere. That's because April 2017 is for Vista. The date for Windows 7 is January 2020.
And again, as it says in the link, XP mainstream support was withdrawn way back in April 2009 (a year after SP3).
Nothing more than a scaremongering OP.>:(
I thought it was about 2020 as well, i seen somewhere it was.
Plenty of time then.
Yes, I don't think people would be happy if MS ended it earlier.
I purchased a new PC in Feb. and after using Win7 for 5 years I find Win8 nothing short of a headache. My PC is loaded with unwanted Apps. and updates are so large they are filling up the hard-drive, the supplier advise that although Win8 has so many security faults they still suggested updates are turned off (Bad advice).
The moral of this story is..`Keep away from Windows 8` its little less than an Advertising promotional tool for Microsoft
Before you go shelling out £££ for a copy of Win 7 Professional (if you can find it), I'd suggest trying out and installing the free Classic Shell first: http://www.classicshell.net/ http://cdn3.taliferguson.com/img/episodes/321/master.jpg
Good luck!
Just to add, for Ecckles' benefit, MS persistently try to suck you into setting up an online account and Bing everything, both when installing W8 and when upgrading to 8.1. But you don't need to do either, I finally installed 8.1 the other day and although it's a pain (taking half an hour to download and fully install) they still haven't managed to trick me into creating an online account or binging anything. And Classic Shell still works fine, just like it always did. Still a Metro-free and app-free zone. :cool:
Glad to see the O/P was somewhat up the pole, I knew the dates would be extended but didn't expect it within 24 hours, cheers to Ulysses777!
The unfortunate thing is that, underneath the schizo exteriors, the underlying Win 8 OS is a actually improvement on its predecessors. Although l don't have Win 8, l'm not impressed either by the enforced Google-style sign up system that Microsoft's now adopting or the pushing of the ongoing cash cow that is Office 365.
Windows 8 is more secure than 7 and if updates are filling up your drive ten it must be a small drive. I knock windows 8 for it GUI, because it is awful, but once you get past that and get a start menu in place, Windows 8 becomes usable and while I do like windows 7 and prefer it to windows 8 mainly in looks, 8 is far superior. There I said it, That will shock some people
What unwanted apps is your computer loaded with? The apps on the metro UI can be got rid off and the ones you can#t I doubt takes much space. i got windows 8 on a 120GB ssd, I have also got Vegas video editor and a a load of Adobe stuff, photoshop, and about another 5 of their product and yet I am pretty sure I am just under half full.
I can not say how much until I boot back into windows.
Sure there are faults with Windows 8, but then thast is the same with all Ms software and other software for that matter.
If you are going back to 7 then that is fine, a mate of mine gone back to 7 as a couple of his games don't seem to work so well on 8
I knew Dx12 wouldn't come for 7.
I think back in the XP era people thought about DirectX and which version they were using, but I haven't thought about it for years, and wouldn't have a clue about it on my current machines.
Perhaps it's still a factor for gamers though?
Me too, I was being ironical!
It is, but i think a lot of gamers are looking at AMD Mantle and see what that can do.