Windows 7 pro will stop receiving updates in January 2020

Microsoft announced yesterday that it will begin notifying Windows 7 Pro users of its plan to stop updating the operating system on January 14, 2020.

Windows 7 Pro will stop receiving updates in January 2020

Windows 7 Home users started receiving these notifications in March. Now they will start to reach professional users of the operating system, or at least some of them. Microsoft said in yesterday's announcement that "devices that join a domain as part of an IT-managed infrastructure will not receive the notifications . "

Notifications for March included a “learn more” button that led to a page on the Microsoft website about Windows 10 and the devices that run it. The company is looking for Windows 7 users to upgrade to Windows 10.

Notifications should help Microsoft ensure that Windows 7 users are not surprised when the operating system stops receiving updates in a few months.

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Windows 7 has had a fairly long history of support from Microsoft: The base version debuted in 2009, was supported until 2015, and then saw the release of Service Pack 1 that still exists. Almost 11 years of support is not bad for an operating system, especially when its successor has more than 900 million users right now. However, Windows 7 is still widely used by millions of users worldwide, but the time will soon come to take a step forward towards Windows 10.