"Smith, David" <desm...@wustl.edu> writes: >Why are you upgrading to an OS that's already pretty close to end-of-support?
I believe you are mistakenly equating Mainstream Support and Extended Support dates. Mainstream Support means new features, and service packs. Extended Support is the big one: no more security patches, no performance improvements, nothing. AKA End of Life. The end of ‘Extended Support’ is what happened to Windows XP on 8 April 2014. That won't happen to Windows 7 until 2020, i.e., 5+ years down the road from here. 5 years can hardly be described as "close to end-of-support" http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle Client Latest update End of End of OS or service pack mainstream support extended support ---------------+-----------------+--------------------+------------------- Windows XP Service Pack 3 April 14, 2009 April 8, 2014 Windows Vista Service Pack 2 April 10, 2012 April 11, 2017 Windows 7 * Service Pack 1 January 13, 2015 January 14, 2020 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 January 9, 2018 January 10, 2023 (knocks on wood that ASCII table format does not break) _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
