Microsoft will offer paid updates on windows 7 starting in 2020

Microsoft made a series of announcements regarding support for Windows. Windows 10 Enterprise and Education are receiving 30 months of support now, but also, the company publicly said that Windows 7 users will be able to receive additional security updates after 2020, which is when support for this operating system officially ends.

Extended compatibility with this operating system will end on January 14, 2020, so companies will be able to obtain Extended Security Updates (ESU) until January 2023 by paying for that extended support. According to Microsoft, these updates will be sold per device, with a price increase each year. In other words, this is not for users and businesses to stay on Windows 7, but to incentivize them to move to Windows 10.

This capability is only available to Windows 7 Professional and Enterprise clients using Volume Licensing. What has not been clear, at the moment, is how much this extended support will cost.

Microsoft also announced some changes to the Office 365 ProPlus support. Already in February it announced that, from 2020, Office 365 will stop working on Windows 8.1 and earlier systems. The company is now correcting this. We can install it in Windows 8.1 until January 2023, which is the end of the extended support date for the operating system. The same thing happens in Windows 7, if you are paying for extended support, you can install the suite until January 2023.

Windows 7 launched in 2009 and is on the path to 10-year longevity with us.

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