Microsoft extends support for Vista and Windows 7

Microsoft has “extended support” is added to the consumer versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, so that home users longer security updates are assured. Of Vista, ran the support on 10 april.

The mainstream support of Windows Vista will stop april 10, 2012 and extended support, Microsoft does not normally on consumer products, so read the question-and-response page of the Microsoft Support Lifecycle page. The end of support means that users have no security updates anymore. This would be the systems of large groups of users vulnerable: 8 percent of all computer users running still Vista, that is more than there are Mac OS X users, if we use the figures of NetMarketShare must believe.

Initially, stood at the Product Lifecycle page of Windows Vista that there is no Extended Support for the consumer versions, but Friday, Microsoft has the page been modified, as notes Computerworld. This means that all versions of Vista support until 11 april 2017. The business Vista variants had already Extended Support.

Not only the consumer versions of Vista to get, however, extended support, but also the Home, Starter, and Ultimate editions of Windows 7. Previously stood that these versions do not have Extended Support, which Windows 7 home users have no security updates would get after 13 January 2015. On the updated page informs Microsoft that the OS versions indeed extended support until 14 January 2020, as with the Enterprise and Professional operating systems.

Previously extended Microsoft support for all versions of Windows XP. That runs now april 8, 2014. Windows XP would still have a market share of more than 45 percent.