Utilizing Windows 7 was intended to be free, yet not long after declaring new month to month charges for Windows 10, Microsoft MSFT +0.39% affirmed it would likewise be presenting month to month expenses for Windows 7 and "the cost will expand every year". Justifiably, there has been a considerable measure of outrage so how about we take a gander at why has Microsoft done this, who it influences and what the future looks like for Windows 7 clients...
News of the month to month expenses was unobtrusively declared close to the base of a September sixth Microsoft blog entry called "Helping clients move to a cutting edge work area". While the title may grind, look carefully and there is really one morsel of solace.
The Bad News
We should get this out the way first: the blog entry affirmed Microsoft is finishing all help for Windows 7 on January fourteenth, 2020. Truly, that is only 15 months away and it incorporates security refreshes, along these lines opening the conduits to programmers and rendering the working framework adequately pointless.
Except if you pay.
As Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Office and Windows Marketing, clarified: "[T]oday we are reporting that we will offer paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) through January 2023. The Windows 7 ESU will be sold on a for each gadget premise and the cost will expand every year."
No evaluating subtle elements were uncovered (I presume it's a considerable measure) and Spataro affirmed these would just be offered to clients running Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Enterprise in Volume Licensing - otherwise known as expansive organizations. Thusly this avoids by far most of Windows 7 clients, as the working framework still keeps running on just about 40% of PCs around the world
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