Products Reaching End of Support in the Second Half of 2014

[Brink]

As of July 2014, the following list represents some of the products reaching end of support in the next 6 months.

Service Packs Retiring: Support for the following Service Packs will retire in the next 6 months. Customers should migrate to the next available Service Pack to continue to receive security updates and be eligible for other support options.

(see table at site)

Key Products Transitioning from Mainstream Support to Extended Support: The following products will be moving into Extended Support in the next 6 months. Extended Support lasts for 5 years and includes security updates at no cost, and paid hotfix support. Additionally, Microsoft will not accept requests for design changes or new features during the Extended Support phase.

(see table at site)

Key Products Transitioning from Extended Support to End of Support: The following products will be reaching end of support in the next 6 months. There will be no new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates.

(see table at site)

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See also: How Microsoft's support lifecycles affect you and your business | ZDNet

 

[NoN]

Humm... so it does mean that windows 7 will receive after January 13, 2015 only security updates and no more updates and hotfixes...

Does those Updates and Hotfixes will be at consumers cost (paid hotfix support), unless owning Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise during Extended Support also?

 

[Indianatone]

Humm... so it does mean that windows 7 will receive after January 13, 2015 only security updates and no more updates and hotfixes...

Does those Updates and Hotfixes will be at consumers cost (paid hotfix support), unless owning Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise during Extended Support also?

No. It just means the end of support for new features like say IE13 or something similar. Another 5 years of fixes for security for all versions. There is also a possibility of the timeframe being extended since a large number or corporate users have recently moved to Windows 7. I think there is a very good chance of that happening since windows 8 has such a tarnished reputation and is basically a lost cause. I suspect that any essential new technologies Microsoft come up with will be back ported to 7 as well. I don't honestly think some companies are going to want to move OS again within the next few years like M$ would like unless the OS is free and gives corporate exactly what they need, a locked down desktop for working with.

 

[King Arthur]

With Windows 9 coming soon, I don't see why MS would have any reason to extend Windows 7's support life or backport new things for it.

 

[Computer0304]

Will SF be still up after support completly ends? Also, I hope it is extended more because of all the businesses upgrading to Windows 7.

I hope Windows 9 will be good and if not, Microsoft will be losing customers if they don't want to resort to using it.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Will SF be still up after support completly ends? Also, I hope it is extended more because of all the businesses upgrading to Windows 7...

Why worry about it for now? Win 7 support won't completely end for around 5 1/2 years.

 

[RoasterMen]

And I've just upgraded from Home Premium to Professional

 

[NoN]

This could also be handy:

Lifecycle Information for Microsoft Client Software Support

10. Who can receive support in the Extended Support phase?
Extended Support will be available to all customers*. Extended Support includes paid support (support that is charged on an hourly basis or per incident), security update support at no additional cost, and paid hotfix support. To receive hotfix support, an Extended Hotfix Support contract must be purchased within the first 90 days following the end of the Mainstream Support phase. (The 90-day requirement is waived if Software Assurance or Dynamics Business Ready Enhancement Plan has been purchased for the product in question.) Microsoft will not accept requests for warranty support, design changes, or new features during the Extended Support phase.
* Extended Support is not offered for Consumer, Consumer Hardware, Multimedia products or Microsoft Online Services.

Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy FAQ

 

[Indianatone]

With Windows 9 coming soon, I don't see why MS would have any reason to extend Windows 7's support life or backport new things for it.

One thing I have noticed about King Arthur is if someone makes a comment he always disagrees. You seriously think massive corporations, hospitals and governments are going to move quickly to Windows 9. Get off your throne and realise how long it has taken them to move from XP Pro.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

With Windows 9 coming soon, I don't see why MS would have any reason to extend Windows 7's support life or backport new things for it.

One thing I have noticed about King Arthur is if someone makes a comment he always disagrees...

I've also noticed that about him, among other things. However, in this case he isn't too far off track. M$ has made it clear there will not be an SP3 for Win 7 (mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble) and their reason most likely is to encourage people to bail from Win 7 earlier and buy new OSes.

 

[ThrashZone]

Well from what I've seen in win-8 it's sure isn't costs of the os that people rejected,
Win-8 started out as 19.99 if I recall as only a upgrade options no full release yet,
Win-8.1 full version now at 102.00 I believe oem,
Not sure about what the retail versions are going for,

But as far as out of the box x-per would probably be happier with win-7,
Although the libraries features will still through them for a loop or two

 

[Computer0304]

This could also be handy:

Lifecycle Information for Microsoft Client Software Support

10. Who can receive support in the Extended Support phase?
Extended Support will be available to all customers*. Extended Support includes paid support (support that is charged on an hourly basis or per incident), security update support at no additional cost, and paid hotfix support. To receive hotfix support, an Extended Hotfix Support contract must be purchased within the first 90 days following the end of the Mainstream Support phase. (The 90-day requirement is waived if Software Assurance or Dynamics Business Ready Enhancement Plan has been purchased for the product in question.) Microsoft will not accept requests for warranty support, design changes, or new features during the Extended Support phase.
* Extended Support is not offered for Consumer, Consumer Hardware, Multimedia products or Microsoft Online Services.

Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy FAQ

Then how come a big part of the Internet say that we will get security updates when here it says extended support is not for consumers? Are they all wrong? XP got updates during extended support even if you are a consumer, so this is very confusing.

 

[King Arthur]

With Windows 9 coming soon, I don't see why MS would have any reason to extend Windows 7's support life or backport new things for it.

One thing I have noticed about King Arthur is if someone makes a comment he always disagrees. You seriously think massive corporations, hospitals and governments are going to move quickly to Windows 9. Get off your throne and realise how long it has taken them to move from XP Pro.

MS will in fact refuse to backport new features and/or issue updates during extended support; Windows XP for its part did not get DX10+ nor IE9+ despite XP's huge presence (and despite being in mainstream support too when DX10 was released!), Windows 2000 was actively denied a pretty big patch that XP+ got because it would've entailed something along the lines of a major rewrite of the OS. I don't see anything that would make Windows 7's extended support period be any different in this respect.

And yes, I do like to play Devil's Advocate. :devil:

 

[NoN]

This could also be handy:

Lifecycle Information for Microsoft Client Software Support

10. Who can receive support in the Extended Support phase?
Extended Support will be available to all customers*. Extended Support includes paid support (support that is charged on an hourly basis or per incident), security update support at no additional cost, and paid hotfix support. To receive hotfix support, an Extended Hotfix Support contract must be purchased within the first 90 days following the end of the Mainstream Support phase. (The 90-day requirement is waived if Software Assurance or Dynamics Business Ready Enhancement Plan has been purchased for the product in question.) Microsoft will not accept requests for warranty support, design changes, or new features during the Extended Support phase.
* Extended Support is not offered for Consumer, Consumer Hardware, Multimedia products or Microsoft Online Services.

Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy FAQ

Then how come a big part of the Internet say that we will get security updates when here it says extended support is not for consumers? Are they all wrong? XP got updates during extended support even if you are a consumer, so this is very confusing.

That's mean only the "Security updates" will be available to consumers AND NO future "Updates" (non-security ones) and "Hotfixes".

 

[Computer0304]

Oops thought security update support was saying that there will be no security updates for us, but now I think it means support for businesses for installing them.