Windows 7 Mainstream Support End-Date Approaching
According to their Windows technical support policy, Microsoft will provide only 10 years of technical support service for all Windows operating systems starting from its launch date. This sounds like a reasonable deal, since you are getting 10 years of tech service, if you purchased the product on its launch date. However, as we saw in the instance of Windows XP, 10 years may not be sufficient for some users to make the upgrade to the new era operating systems.
Windows Technical Support Policy for Windows 7
Considering the popularity of Windows 7, the vast majority of you, who are reading this, may be using the same OS. If along these lines, you ought to realize that Windows 7 Mainstream Support is situated to end soon. Mainstream support only goes on for around five years from the date of launch of the product. For Windows 7, this date will fall on January 13, 2015. Anyhow, the technical support will continue in the form of Extended support.
With Extended Support, you will only receive regular security patches. This will continue for five more years. The free technical support services you received so far won't be available. If you need whatever other technical assistance during this time, you may need to pay for it. As said prior, this is the standard technical support policy emulated by Microsoft for all their operating systems.
Really, this Extended Support will be all that anyone could need to keep the OS in good condition for the following five years. The users require not stress over OS security problems until January 14, 2020, when this support also is situated to terminate. On the other hand, for some users, this may not be sufficient. If you are an IT professional or a software developer, then you may require the most recent OS updates and tools for work purposes.
It is conceivable that Microsoft may expand the Mainstream Support to those users who are willing to pay for it. At any rate, they should think about doing this for the venture users. If not, you can always upgrade your system to the modern Windows OS to delight in five years of Mainstream support. It is all that much conceivable that Microsoft will release the as of late announced Windows 10 before the Windows 7 Mainstream support end-date said above.
Actually, they need to release Windows 10 before this date, since no Windows 7 user is interested in upgrading to Windows 8 or 8.1. Thus, Microsoft brings to the table them an option, if they need to retain these customers.













