• Closing out the patching year …

    Posted on December 16, 2019 at 01:05 CST by • Comment in the Forums

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    By Susan Bradley

    This is a busy time for Windows upgrading.

    Win10 1803 officially fell into the bit bucket this past November; Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 will suffer the same fate this coming January.

    Upgrading to a newer version of Windows 10 should be relatively painless. But the shift will be far more difficult and consequential for the mass of PC users still running Win7.

    Security is obviously a concern for Win7 users, but Microsoft has stated that Security Essentials updates will also end in January. However, it’s likely that third-party browsers and anti-malware apps will continue to get updates for some unknown period of time. Based on the XP experience, it could be months or years.

    Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.46.0 (2019-12-16).

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