{"id":8842,"date":"2019-03-08T07:28:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T06:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=8842"},"modified":"2021-08-09T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T11:31:40","slug":"windows-7-extended-security-updates-buyable-from-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/03\/08\/windows-7-extended-security-updates-buyable-from-april-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Extended Security Updates buyable from April 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"win7\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"win7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/win7_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"44\" align=\"left\" height=\"42\"> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/windows-7-extended-security-updates-buchbar-ab-april-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Microsoft offers Extended Security Updates for Windows 7 SP1 for companies until January 2023. This extended support can be bought from April 1, 2019 (hope it's not an April fools prank).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Windows 7 EOL in 2020<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vg06.met.vgwort.de\/na\/1aea0ba0f66f4916a32e2ffc17305324\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">Windows 7 reaches the end of life on January 14, 2020. But Microsoft announced last summmer (see <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/09\/06\/wow-windows-7-get-extended-support-until-january-2023\/\">Wow! Windows 7 get extended support until January 2023<\/a>), that Windows 7 will be supported until 2023. Within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/helping-customers-shift-to-a-modern-desktop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this blog post<\/a> Microsoft wrote: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As previously announced, Windows 7 extended support is ending January 14, 2020. While many of you are already well on your way in deploying Windows 10, we understand that everyone is at a different point in the upgrade process.  <\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, today we are announcing that we will offer paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) through January 2023. The Windows 7 ESU will be sold on a per-device basis and the price will increase each year. Windows 7 ESUs will be available to all Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise customers in Volume Licensing, with a discount to customers with Windows software assurance, Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Education subscriptions. In addition, Office 365 ProPlus will be supported on devices with active Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) through January 2023. This means that customers who purchase the Windows 7 ESU will be able to continue to run Office 365 ProPlus.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Extended Security Updates comes on April 1, 2019<\/h2>\n<p>Till know, it was not clear, when this extended support will be buyable. Now Microsoft has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2019\/03\/01\/now-is-the-time-to-make-the-shift-to-microsoft-365\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced the availability<\/a> of this program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As we announced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/helping-customers-shift-to-a-modern-desktop\/\">September 2018<\/a>, we will provide Extended Security Updates for Windows 7.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2018\/09\/24\/microsoft-365-adds-modern-desktop-on-azure\/\">Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop<\/a> (coming soon) will provide a Windows 7 device with free Extended Security Updates through January 2023, giving you more options to support legacy apps as you transition to Windows 10.\n<li>As a final resource those of you with legacy Windows 7 devices, Extended Security Updates will be available for purchase starting April 1, 2019. They will be sold on a per-device basis for eligible customers and the price will increase each year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So Windows 7 Extended Security Updates will be available for purchase starting April 1, 2019. In addition, Office 365 ProPlus will be supported on devices with active Windows 7 Extended Security Updates through January 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>No official prices for Windows 7 Extended Security Updates <\/h2>\n<p>In February 2019, Mary Foley reported prices for Windows 7 Extended Security Updates. According to Foley, Microsoft informed its partners about prices for Extended Security Updates (ESUs) until January 2023. There is no minimum order value. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201107010214\/https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2019\/02\/05\/d133a61e-77b6-49ed-88e0-e344e9e2fb11\/61dcd0f8ce6fafe44711d1d97c5daedc\/windows-7-chart.jpg\" width=\"491\" height=\"270\">(Source: ZDnet)  <\/p>\n<p>For Windows 10 Enterprise and Microsoft 365 customers, Microsoft will offer Windows 7 ESUs as an add-on.&nbsp; I've addressed more details within my blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/02\/06\/costs-for-windows-7-extended-security-updates-till-2023\/\">Prices for Windows 7 Extended Security Updates till 2023<\/a>. People, who running Windows 7 on Virtual Desktop will receive Windows 7 security updates for free. (via, <a href=\"https:\/\/mspoweruser.com\/microsoft-will-start-selling-windows-7-extended-security-updates-starting-april-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Similar articles:<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/09\/06\/wow-windows-7-get-extended-support-until-january-2023\/\">Wow! Windows 7 get extended support until January 2023<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/02\/06\/costs-for-windows-7-extended-security-updates-till-2023\/\">Prices for Windows 7 Extended Security Updates till 2023<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Microsoft offers Extended Security Updates for Windows 7 SP1 for companies until January 2023. This extended support can be bought from April 1, 2019 (hope it's not an April fools prank).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[69,460,195,17],"class_list":["post-8842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","category-windows","tag-security","tag-support","tag-update","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}