Come January 2020, Windows 7 holdouts will be forced to upgrade – or run some potentially nasty risks.
Today is an important date to note for Windows 7 users, because in exactly a year’s time, on January 14,2020, all support for the operating system will cease, meaning that Microsoft will no longer deliver updates or critical security patches.
In other words, you’ve only got a year left before you need to consider moving to Windows 10 (or some manner of alternative).
Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended back in January 2015, but extended support, whereby Microsoft continues to deliver updates and fixes any vulnerabilities in the OS, runs for a further five years.
