Windows 7 Support Ends on January 14 2020

Windows 7 Support Ends on January 14 2020

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The end of life date for Windows 7 is 14 January 2020 and yet 22% of computers in the UK running Windows are still running it.

Windows 7 support lifecycle

Microsoft made a commitment to provide 10 years of product support for Windows 7 when it was released on October 22, 2009. When this 10-year period ends, Microsoft will discontinue Windows 7 support so that we can focus our investment on supporting newer technologies and great new experiences. The specific end of support day for Windows 7 will be January 14, 2020. After that, technical assistance and software updates from Windows Update that help protect your PC will no longer be available for the product. Microsoft strongly recommends that you move to Windows 10 sometime before January 2020 to avoid a situation where you need service or support that is no longer available.

How does this impact you?

 Microsoft made a commitment to provide 10 years of product support for Windows 7 when it was released on October 22, 2009. When this 10-year period ends, Microsoft will discontinue Windows 7 support so that we can focus our investment on supporting newer technologies and great new experiences. The specific end of support day for Windows 7 will be January 14, 2020. After that, technical assistance and software updates from Windows Update that help protect your PC will no longer be available for the product. Microsoft strongly recommends that you move to Windows 10 sometime before January 2020 to avoid a situation where you need service or support that is no longer available.

source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4057281/windows-7-support-will-end-on-january-14-2020

You will not have access to technical assistance or security updates, opening your business up to all kinds of unwanted issues such as hacks, viruses, malware, and other potentially disastrous security flaws.

It’s time to act, with 55 per cent of UK businesses targeted by cybercrime in the last year alone, you do not want to be using an unsupported operating system going into 2020!

 

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Date: December 4, 2019

Author: Magnetar IT

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