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Windows 7 ESU year two oddities

Posted on January 15, 2021 at 21:45 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

According to the thread in the Microsoft Tech Community:

Year two: Extended Security Updates for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 – Microsoft Tech Community

Here are some interesting things about the Year 2 ESU license.

Oddity number 1: While you can’t buy year 2 of the ESU without having an existing (or new) order for year 1 on your account, you can install the year 2 ESU without and having the year 1 ESU installed. I guess you’d have this situation if you were reinstalling/rebuilding a Windows 7 machine.

Oddity number 2: We don’t think there is a “test” update like last year.

Overall, I have less clients this year asking for these ESUs as they’ve replaced many of their machines with Windows 10 in the past year.

Windows 7, Windows Patches/Security Patch Lady Posts, Win7 ESU

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