As you know, support for Windows 14 for regular users will end on January 2020, 7. But businesses will continue to receive paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) for another three years. This applies to editions of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise, while their companies of all sizes, although initially they were large corporations with large volumes of orders for operating systems and software.
Redmond said they are taking into account the fact that their customers are at different stages of the transition to Windows 10. This was the reason for the expansion of the paid support program.
It is noted that the purchase of extended security updates will go through the Cloud Solution Provider program, which will also ensure the transition to Windows 10. And the start of the program is scheduled for December 1, 2019.
It is noted that the final support for the G2023 will end in January 7. As expected, up to this point, all companies will be able to upgrade their hardware. After all, only in this case the use of Windows 4 is justified. For example, the AMD AM1151 and Intel LGA2017 platforms (both 7) no longer have optimizations for Windows XNUMX.
Currently, about 7% of computers in the world are running Windows 28. But the share of Windows 10 is an impressive 52%. At the same time, we recall that according to the data for September, the share of the "seven" amid the rise of macOS.
Source: 3dnews.ru