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• Microsoft wants to sell you security patches for Win7

  Posted on October 21, 2019 at 01:05 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  WINDOWS 7 SUPPORT

  By Amy Babinchak

  Given the approaching Windows 7 end of life (January 14, 2020), here’s a surprising development from Microsoft: paid support for all business customers.

  Microsoft is, perhaps, bowing to reality — thousands of businesses are not going to migrate to Win10 before the deadline. Whatever the reason, beginning December 1, even small firms will be able to purchase an Extended Security Updates (ESU) license for their Win7 systems.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.38.0 (2019-10-21).

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• Foley: Win7 Extended Support Updates will cost two arms and three legs

  Posted on February 6, 2019 at 06:02 CST by admin • Comment in the Forums

  Mary Jo Foley, posting on ZDNet, has come across some official information about the price of extended support for Win7 — security patches to be delivered after Win7 reaches end of life on January 14, 2020.

  If your organization’s running Win7 Pro, it’ll cost $50 per device for the first year, $100 for the second and $200 for the third.

  For Win7 Enterprise, it’s $25, $50 and $100.

  You have to be a volume licensing “active customer” in order to qualify to spend the extra bucks.

  Microsoft hasn’t confirmed the numbers.

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

  Posted on September 9, 2018 at 06:36 CDT by woody • 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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• The Win7/Skylake controversy

  Posted on January 22, 2016 at 13:59 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Would somebody please explain to me how Microsoft can retroactively chop off extended support for Windows 7?

  Oh. The “support list” has just been published.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

  Windows News Skylake, Windows 7 extended support