14 yesterday 2019 was a milestone day for Microsoft's popular Windows 7 operating system. After just one year, at 14 January of 2020, the company will stop supporting with updates security the operating system.
This is of course expected by Microsoft and its developers, as current Windows 7 users will have to upgrade to the operating system that has been promoted for so long by company: Windows 10.
On the other hand, there are many who refuse to upgrade their system to Microsoft's new Windows as a service model, as things are not working out well for all systems, especially those that use older hardware.
Windows 7 was a huge success for Microsoft, like Windows XP. Anyone who knows the history of its operating system will remember Vista's failure, but also the denial of Windows 8 adoption.
But the popularity of Windows 7 was huge. A few days ago, according to the analytics services of Net Applications, Windows 10 managed to outnumber users running Windows 7 systems.
Even today, one year before end of support, Windows 7 is still installed at 42,8 percent of Windows-based computers running the world.
Of course, Microsoft will start warning users of the popular operating system to upgrade to Windows 10 as the date end of support.
Here we should mention that only the free support. After January 14, 2020, Microsoft will continue to provide security updates for another three years to companies that pay a price, which will continue to increase each year.
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