Originally Posted By: L_Sludger
I just read that Micro$oft is ending mainstream support for Windows 7 in less than a month, January 15 2015. Extended support (a joke) goes until 2020.
Whats up with that? I'd used Windows XP until 2010 and only upgraded to 7 out of necessity. Now 7 is already old news?
Planned obsolescence at its worst. Thanks Microsoft.
No, the vast majority of users will be fine on extended support. It's not a "joke" at all. You still get security patches---the biggest thing by far---and program updates for IE and other MS bloat, er, software.
I run Linux more than Windows, but I plan to keep Win 7 on this PC as long as the PC lasts or until Win 7's EOL in January 2020. As long as MS ships security patches for it, all is well.
For the record, MS support policy has been five years of full support followed by five more years of extended support. They extended that---twice, I think---for XP, so it got support for 27 months "extra." Also, extended support now includes Home Premium (and I think Home Basic) versions, not just Professional and Enterprise.
Not shilling for MS here. As noted I run Linux more than Windows. But their support policy is reasonable, I think.