There are many operating systems that, despite their age, continue to be widely used since certain applications, also old, work better on those OS. Something that happens especially with Windows, which over time have been losing support from Microsoft, as will now happen with Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Operating systems that were released during 2009 and 2012 respectively, having a very different reception from users, who in a certain way to this day praise the first, while they have rejected the second to such a level that it became a failure. But regardless of the different fortunes each has had since their releases, the official support work behind these versions of Windows officially ends next month.
Support that until now was working exceptionally well at its “extended” level for Windows 7, as Microsoft’s “mainstream” level support for its operating systems had ended in January 2015, while its extended support ended in January 2020 but seeing that almost 25 percent of Windows installations were of this version, Microsoft offered an additional three years of support for a special rate.
Period of time that ends on January 10, 2023, the day that Windows 7 will stop receiving updates from Microsoft, who will also take advantage of doing the same with Windows 8, an operating system that ended its main support in January 2018, ending its extended support also in January.
Finally, Microsoft also announced that Microsoft Edge will no longer receive updates on Windows 7 and Windows 8 after January 12, 2023, something that will also happen but from Google and its Chrome browser, which will also stop receiving updates on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 after January 2023.