Microsoft extends end-of-life for Win10 version 1809 Pro and Home

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How about that. This was just posted on the official Windows Release Information page: We have been evaluating the public health situation and underst
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Berserker79, ve2mrx, Pim, Mele20, Elly, abbodi86

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Good decision

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Man…. I feel bad for anyone who still has to keep dragging Project Server 2010 along in a production environment.  It’s so outdated now and is missing a lot of things people would expect in a project management tool.  Even 2013 was such a huge improvement.

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If they are keeping that niche product going, then they should also keep supporting Windows 7.

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They are.  Microsoft is supporting Windows 7 until at least 2023.

 

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I think Anotherwindowsuser means for free and also for non-businesses (Home version). I agree with that. It would be the right thing for MS to do during this pandemic , where people have other things to take care of than moving to Windows 10 or just had to revive old Windows 7 machines to be able to work from home.

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@ Woody

I strongly feel your “Five Steps Microsoft Should Take” article needs a critical sixth step!

Lot’s of organizations still use (and prefer — but that’s another issue entirely) Office 2010.

On October 13, 2020 support stops for Office 2010.  For the risk takers, this is fine except for one little detail:  Outlook 2010 will stop talking to Office 365 Exchange servers.

There are a significant number of very small business budget subscribers to Office 365 for their email, teams, and onedrive services, whom have avoided upgrading to the more expensive monthly/annual plans which include the Office software to save money.  These are generally the hardest hit companies in the pandemic.

We’re looking at a major increase in cost just before October, at a time when our budgets will be close to a breaking point.

Specifically businesses that had old perma-licenses to Outlook 2010 and used these loss leader plans will need to be upgraded by October:

Microsoft 365 Business Basic = $5/month (Next SMB plan is  Microsoft 365 Business Standard at $12.50/month)
Office 365 E1 = $8/month (Next tier is E3 at $20/month)

Lest anyone think that’s trivial, let me break down how this much really costs:

Client with 35 seats.

Using the E1 plan with Advanced protection is $8 + $3 per month.
$385/month current charges before tax.

They have to upgrade to E3, at $20 + $3 per month (still want that advanced spam control)

Now we’re talking $805/month!  More than double their budget . . . and recurring (not a one time cost.)

We kinda would like to get Microsoft’s attention on this, and see if there is some flexibility on that October deadline.  Say – mid to late next year perhaps to give us time to get back up to our normal budgets?

(Note:  yes, we know the OWA feature is included and could be a temp workaround  – but that’s not quite the same as Outlook running on a desktop.)

~ Group "Weekend" ~

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[abbodi86]

I guess they added this clear paragraph for more confirmation

These changes do not impact or delay the end of support date of other versions not mentioned here. The end of support date for Exchange Server 2010, Office 2010, Project 2010, Office 2016 for Mac, and Office 2013 connectivity to the Office 365 services remains the same. See Microsoft Office 2010 End of Support blog and the Project 2010 end of support roadmap for additional resources and options.

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For those who are going to interject with “This is why you keep full disk image backups,” firstly, while I don’t disagree with that advice, it still takes time to produce these backups and to restore them when something goes wrong. In a time like this, wouldn’t it be better for things to just not go wrong in the first place, rather than wasting time cleaning up after a s*****p? Sure, it may be better than having a bricked machine with no backup to restore from, but a backup is a safety net, not a wall to lean on. If keeping things from going wrong involves not having to deal with a risky upgrade, then so be it. We should be focused on helping to stop this pandemic, not worrying about patches.

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Well, this is good news! I was really hoping that I could stick to 1809 for a longer time, since 1903/1909 still seem to have the odd, disrupting bug pop up on a relatively frequent basis… According to the “Lifecycle changes to end of support and servicing dates” page, not only EOL of 1809 has been delayed to November 2020, but they are also “pausing Microsoft initiated feature updates for Home and Pro editions running on version 1809“.

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