{"id":21608,"date":"2020-01-15T21:45:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T20:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21608"},"modified":"2020-01-15T22:43:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:43:15","slug":"farewell-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21608","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Windows 7 support officially ended yesterday and
\nwith it a truly good time of one operating system as
\nreliable as good ol’ Windows XP. Since today only
\ncustomers with ESU subscription will receive updates.<\/p>\n

With over 10 years of activity, Windows 7 is as successful as Windows XP if not more successful. The fact that a lot of people neglected Windows Vista and directly updated to Windows 7 and also the fact that Windows 7 still runs on one third of all Windows computers show that Windows 7 has still a very solid fan base even though Windows 10 was free to upgrade from Windows 7 since 2015. However the aggressive update policy took place in 2017 when Microsoft had first plans to drop support for Windows 7 but received a lot of feedback not to do so. This made Windows 7 live till yesterday, for private users that is (or for those private users willing to buy an ESU subscription for 80 US$ per year)<\/p>\n

Extended Support is said to last until January 7th, 2023 which means another 3 years for paying users.<\/p>\n

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But although Windows 7 will no longer receive updates does not automatically mean you have to finish it off just now. However you have to be even more careful now when being online or opening attachments from unknown sources.<\/p>\n

However you should think of updating Windows 7 to Windows 10 in the near future as even manufacturers and game developers will start dropping support for Windows 7 soon.<\/p>\n

But let’s have a historical hike through time and development of Windows from it’s first version 1.01 in 1985 till today…<\/p>\n