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What are your plans for Windows 7 end of life?


Nic-Automox

Windows 7 is going end of life on Jan 14, 2020, so you’ve got a little over a month to upgrade those last few machines in your company.


Automox will continue to patch your Windows 7 third party software and support the agent on Windows 7, but Microsoft will only release Windows 7 OS & security patches for those of you who purchase very expensive extended support. Here’s their FAQ on the subject: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4057281/windows-7-support-will-end-on-january-14-2020


If you need help finding those last few Windows 7 boxes, you can use Automox to help track them down by sorting by OS Version on the Devices page. Note that with the 11/27/19 release, we now sort the entire data set and not page by page, which makes this process easier.


How many of you still have machines left to upgrade, and if so, how many?


12 replies

Nic-Automox
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  • Former Automox Employee
  • 832 replies
  • December 9, 2019

And someone has already hacked the extended update system:



Nic-Automox
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  • Former Automox Employee
  • 832 replies
  • December 9, 2019

Looks like the NHS is going to be giving Microsoft forkloads of cash for the extended updates. They’ve got hundreds of thousands of Win7 machines still:



Nic-Automox
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  • Former Automox Employee
  • 832 replies
  • December 16, 2019

Here’s our blog post on the matter: https://blog.automox.com/upgrade-windows-7-to-windows-10


  • 0 replies
  • December 17, 2019

In case you want to remind your managers…



Nic-Automox
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  • Former Automox Employee
  • 832 replies
  • January 9, 2020

One week left!


dimforest
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  • January 9, 2020

Not worried one bit about it because we’re using a superior operating system in Windows ME.


Nic-Automox
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  • Former Automox Employee
  • 832 replies
  • January 9, 2020

You are truly a wise man.


dimforest
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  • 169 replies
  • January 9, 2020

I get that a lot.


JayG
  • Former Automox Employee
  • 18 replies
  • January 10, 2020

Taking Apples old security through obscurity to the Windows equivalent extreme, I see.


Schuyler-Automox

LOL, genius 🙂


Nic-Automox
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  • Former Automox Employee
  • 832 replies
  • January 14, 2020

The day is here!



dimforest
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  • 169 replies
  • January 14, 2020

RIP


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