On January 10, 2023, Windows 8.1 received its last security update, and this week, extended support (Extended Security Updates, ESU) for Windows 7 Professional and Enterprise, which has been paid for in recent years and provided users with patches for critical and important vulnerabilities, will be discontinued.
Let me remind you that Windows 7 was released back in 2009, and its support officially ended in January 2015. However, after that, extended support was valid until January 2020.The media wrote that Millions of Windows 7 users refuse to upgrade to Windows 10.
And the paid extended support mentioned above was until recently the last resort for customers who still needed to run legacy Microsoft products after support ended.
Also coming to an end is the “lifetime” of all editions of Windows 8.1, which was released nine years ago, in the fall of 2013.
Let me also remind you that For protection against hackers’ attacks, VBScript in Windows 7 and 8 is disabled.
More than 11% of all Windows systems in the world currently run Windows 7, and 2.59% of Microsoft customers use Windows 8.1, according to Statcounter.
We also need to say that next week the developers will release Microsoft Edge 109, and this will be the last version of the browser to support Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. Additionally, this version of Edge will be the last to support Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2.
