Windows 7 is done

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Yeah, I had read that. I think there's one major one that said they're not going to if I remember the article correctly I read it in. But it's still a kinda big risk IMO, given that the underlying OS is still not receiving any security updates.
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Yeah, that's a lot more recent than what I had read.
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Most have no end of support dates.
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Given that Win7 is done Microsoft is still releasing updates and add ons, go figure.
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I would imagine there are quite a few companies with existing service contracts with M$ and they will still do this for a while, I think they did that with XP when it was first phased out.
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They initially wanted to release Edge to Windows 7 and not all the updates have been security related. Enterprise users still get support for up to three years but outside of that the rest makes no sense. XP had a huge market share that didnt go away so they had no choice but to support it longer than they had intended.
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They did finally release Edge (chromium) for Win7 the day AFTER the last Windows updates were released for Win7. Somewhat funny, IMO.
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That is funny.
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I switched 4 years ago and windows 10 is pretty good. I am happy with its performance too.
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