Tuesday, February 21st 2012
Microsoft Increases Windows Vista & 7 Consumer Support to Ten Years
Redmond-based software giant Microsoft Corp. has recently updated its support policy for both Windows Vista and Windows 7 and will be offering extended support to the consumer versions of the two operating systems.
Previously, Microsoft provided 5 years worth of 'mainstream support' for consumers while only businesses got an extra 5 years of extended support. Now, all Windows users will be able to get security updates for 10 years after the operating system's release.
As a result of the policy change, Windows Vista's consumer support was extended to April 11th, 2017. Windows 7 support will end on January 14, 2020.
Source:
ZDNet
Previously, Microsoft provided 5 years worth of 'mainstream support' for consumers while only businesses got an extra 5 years of extended support. Now, all Windows users will be able to get security updates for 10 years after the operating system's release.
As a result of the policy change, Windows Vista's consumer support was extended to April 11th, 2017. Windows 7 support will end on January 14, 2020.
19 Comments on Microsoft Increases Windows Vista & 7 Consumer Support to Ten Years
Judging by the small amount of users using the preview version of W8 compared to the preview version of W7, it looks like it might be another Vista and just get ignored, except on tablets, perhaps. Microsoft may yet backtrack on some of this stuff, if we're lucky.
Ok. But imagine that W8 does deeply change performance when you have a SSD... or some other feature you REEEEALYYYYYYY need :)
I really wish MS would take a leaf out of Apple's book when it comes to their OS and make it available as a download for £20- £30 then people wouldn't be so bothered about upgrading every 2 years or so. at £70+ just for an OEM copy and £100+ for retail it's absurd you should have to pay that every 2 years, no doubt I'll still move to Win8 anyway and just get myself an MSDN key regardless
Nice; though for me this is just the cherry on top of the cake which I get to consume during the lifetime of Windows (Metro) 8
sure its better than XP, but my god is it flawed in its own ways.
Vista is not only not worse than Win7 but it's actually faster :eek:
Some tweaking is needed (disabling services that trash hard disk all the time) but after that it's obvious that GUI speed of Vista is much better :rockout:
Also what I find strange: audio quality in Win7 is slightly worse compared to Vista. It was the case with my previous Audigy4Pro and now with Xonar STX :wtf:
on the other hand I haven't found one area Win7 is better than Vista :banghead:
maybe some vista-haters can enlighten me? :laugh:
BTW, for the price of a dinner for two you can upgrade :)
Other reason to go W8: finally the Queen's Own language out of the box.
For the educated few ;)