During the first quarter of 2017, Microsoft announced that Windows Support 7 will end in 2020, 14 2020 from January of 7 will no longer be able to update Windows XNUMX.
What about corporate customers?
A Microsoft is trying to avoid a repetition of the seemingly endless lifecycle of Windows XP. For this, corporate and institutional customers will only be able to pay for extended support of the 2023 security update by January, or about three years after Microsoft no longer supplies patches regular basis. In addition, the price will increase each year between 2020 and 2023, the longer a company sticks to the past, the more expensive it becomes. As users may note, Microsoft hopes to improve sales of Windows 10.
It is not just a matter of trying to increase quarterly numbers, however. The long life span of Windows XP created serious problems for the PC industry in general, when corporate customers were reluctant to upgrade.
This version of Windows even created security issues when Microsoft had to make a support exception to fix XP systems against the WannaCry. The sooner Microsoft persuades everyone to join the modern era, the sooner it can relax.
