Microsoft be lwa up to support Windows 7 without Service Packs

With effect from Tuesday supports Microsoft all editions of Windows 7 z lwa nder Service Pack not more. Also, Windows XP, Office 2003 and Exchange Server 2003, see the end of support approaching; Tuesday will be the last year of their extended support phase.

The stop of support for Service Pack-less versions of Windows 7 does not come as a surprise. Microsoft stops support for a product by default, if a new Service Pack for 24 months. To everyone support to continue to provide to Microsoft the installation of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 in march already automated. That means that the Service Pack without user intervention via the automatic updates is installed. Only system administrators of sccm or wsus server use the automatic installation to stop.

On 9 april 2014, Microsoft will unplug the power cord from the extended support of Windows XP, Internet

Explorer 6, Office 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 to pull. Especially Windows XP has still a large crowd of users. In January it was apparent from the figures from Net Applications, nearly 40 percent of internet users still use Windows XP. Net Applications collects user data of approximately forty thousand websites. Microsoft showed in the summer of 2012 already know that the support of Windows XP will re-extend.

Windows 7 users that the latest updates are provided by Microsoft until January 13, 2015 supported. In addition, the softwarebouwer the os critical updates, during the phase of extended support until 14 January 2020.