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See that activation on the top? That’s a $61 (US) first year fee for Windows 7 Extended Security Updates that is activated on a Windows 7 Ultimate ma
[See the full post at: Patch Lady – yes the Windows 7 ESU keys work on Ultimate]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Thanks. That is good news! I am eagerly awaiting your article. Thanks for all your efforts!
There comes a point in time where one has to ask how long one should stick with an older OS.
How many people out there still run DOS 6.02 or Windows 3.1? Anyone at all?
Software developers eventually stop supporting older OSes. So, new software with valuable features won’t run on older OSes. At some point you have to ask yourself, is it really worth the struggle swimming against the current.
I can there there being a point in time where even Internet access is going to be difficult with older OSes … just as it is difficult with dial-up 300 baud modems now.
Don’t take this the wrong way people. I have an old Kaypro II with CP/M. But I run ZCPR3 on it. It has 64KB of RAM and 4 half-height floppies. There is no modem and no NIC.
And I also have an old XP system.
But, my real systems have Windows 10 Pro because I really don’t want to be living in the past.
Byte me!
I don’t see 10 as evil and untrustworthy. There are actual business cases that people have for staying on 7. A line of business app. A key business flow. If you are staying on 7 because you think 10 gives you no control, I would disagree. If you are staying on 7 because you don’t like the 10 menu, we can get 10 to look like 7. But please don’t stay on an unpatched 7 and use it for online banking, daily sensitive work online. It will be targeted. It will be attacked.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
I don’t see 10 as evil and untrustworthy.
That’s your opinion though. Do you trust Microsoft with your data? What about Google? What about Facebook? If you trust all of those companies, Microsoft included, then that’s fine, but there are many people that don’t.
If you are staying on 7 because you think 10 gives you no control, I would disagree
Can you please elaborate on this? I cannot see how control over our own computers has gotten better in any area with Windows 10. The only thing they have done is slowly taking it away, just look at the updates or how our settings get reset every feature update.
Thanks for the clarification, Susan. Those using Win7 Home basic or Home premium (or even Starter edition) will have to upgrade to either Win7 Pro or Ultimate to purchase ESUs for Win7.
Note to L95 – it will NOT matter whether using 32bit (x86) or 64bit (x64). As long as you are using Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, Embedded or even Ultimate (regardless of bit-ness) you can get ESUs and they will work.
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I don’t see 10 as evil and untrustworthy.
That’s your opinion though. Do you trust Microsoft with your data? What about Google? What about Facebook? If you trust all of those companies, Microsoft included, then that’s fine, but there are many people that don’t.
If you are staying on 7 because you think 10 gives you no control, I would disagree
Can you please elaborate on this? I cannot see how control over our own computers has gotten better in any area with Windows 10. The only thing they have done is slowly taking it away, just look at the updates or how our settings get reset every feature update.
Look, man, at some point you’re going to have to let this go.
This whole stance of “I explicitly trust Microsoft with the ongoing operation of my computer — including the safety of my data — by running their operating system…. but I don’t trust Microsoft with the ongoing operation of my computer — including the safety of my data” is extremely weird and illogical.
If you’re running Windows — ANY version of Windows — you’ve already ceded control to Microsoft!
There might be a line of code in Windows 7 SP1, perhaps intentional, perhaps accidental, that says “On February 15, 2022 at 11:15 am, delete all the user’s data.” Maybe it’s a bug in the file system driver. Maybe a foreign government agent slipped something into the source code of Windows and it went undected.
There probably isn’t such a bug, but how do you know? You don’t! None of us do! And yet you trust Microsoft enough to run that risk?
Look, if you don’t trust Microsoft for whatever reason, then that’s your perogative… but it’s time to switch to Linux and never look back. At least with Linux, you have the implied trustworthiness of everything being open source. Don’t clutch to Windows 7 like it’s some bastion of safety.
And besides, Windows telemetry is measuring things like whether the Start menu animation is running smoothly, and whether Wordpad is still being used by many people….. not whether you’re cheating on your taxes or your wife.
They can still block Ultimate from eligibily through Microsoft-Windows-SLC-Component-ExtendedSecurityUpdatesAI manifest, which will be shipped with ESU updates
the manifest actually already shipped with 2019-12 rollup KB4530734, but it’s only a placeholder for now
Yep, nothing certain 
also, why Ultimate N is not included?
“Stay tuned as a step by step article will be out soon.”
You betcha. Thanks for making the first crack in the wall.
I am curious as to how this went/goes not only as a series of steps, but as far as a financial transaction. I swore off credit cards years ago after Equifax. If you can’t use PayPal or a check, I’m verstchuken. 
Oh, and $61? I thought it was going to be $50. Undoubtedly there will be some “three upturned tumblers and a ball under one of them” flummery as well. <sigh>
Win7 Pro SP1 64-bit, Dell Latitude E6330 ("The Tank"), Intel CORE i5 "Ivy Bridge", 12GB RAM, Group "0Patch", Multiple Air-Gapped backup drives in different locations. Linux Mint Newbie
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Microsoft CSP Tells How To Get Windows 7 Extended Security Updates
Because they have to also use that cloud storage for governments/defense dept so I’ve done my due diligence.
I think the /s is missing at the end of that statement.
Since when governments/defense care about security, quality,… they just signed a contract with Peter Thiel !!
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