• No, Microsoft has NOT “confirmed” a new monthly charge for Win7

    Posted on September 9, 2018 at 06:36 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    I can’t believe the FUD.

    If you had a volume license for Windows XP, and you wanted to continue to get XP security patches after it reached end of life, you could pay Microsoft to extend the support. It was (and, I believe, still is) a monthly charge that gets larger over time.

    MS announced that they’re doing the same thing with Windows 7. Which shouldn’t surprise anybody.

    Windows 7 Extended Security Updates

    As previously announced, Windows 7 extended support is ending January 14, 2020. While many of you are already well on your way in deploying Windows 10, we understand that everyone is at a different point in the upgrade process.

    With that in mind, today we are announcing that we will offer paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) through January 2023. The Windows 7 ESU will be sold on a per-device basis and the price will increase each year. Windows 7 ESUs will be available to all Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise customers in Volume Licensing, with a discount to customers with Windows software assurance, Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Education subscriptions. In addition, Office 365 ProPlus will be supported on devices with active Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) through January 2023. This means that customers who purchase the Windows 7 ESU will be able to continue to run Office 365 ProPlus.

    The security patches will only be offered to organizations with increasingly deep pockets.

    Microsoft didn’t “relent.” It isn’t a “new monthly charge.” They didn’t “change software update strategy.”

    Sound and fury.

    UPDATE: Gregg Keizer has the whole, accurate story on Computerworld.

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