Will microsoft extend the deadline for free windowes 10?

stator

Probably the same thing that happens when the DFS sale end....

C_Mababejive

So if im on 8.1 should i do the upgrade?

RumRat

C_Mababejive wrote: »

So if im on 8.1 should i do the upgrade?

You are only going to get opinions with that question......Mine is Yes.

iammumtoone

when does the deadline to upgrade end?

pappa_golf

July 29, 2016

iammumtoone

pappa_golf wrote: »

July 29, 2016

thanks a fair bit of time left to make up my mind then.

fred246

I am still on Windows XP. Updates still coming through. Life has not ended.

mac.d

What if you don't get the option to upgrade? I've got a Dell PC that came with Windows 7 installed but I've never had any messages coming up about upgrading.

I don't plan on upgrading incidentally, we have another PC in the house that we upgraded from W8.1 to W10 and I'm happy to stay on W7 as long as possible.

securityguy

Jivesinger wrote: »

So any corporate planning to buy new hardware and stick Windows 7 on it will have to change their strategy now (or at least by July 2017) well in advance of Windows 7 going out of support.

I suspect also that XP co-incided with the rollout of computers as a universal "thing" in most businesses. Very few companies, for example, rolled out laptops throughout the business running anything much prior to XP: there was some NT, but it was in much smaller quantities. And at the time that they did it, home computer were nothing like as universal as they now are, so training was a massive issue. And of course, they were a monoculture: as happened in the NHS, there was XP, XP and XP.

So XP->whatever-next was the first time that big corporate IT departments were faced with the issue of large-scale upgrade. Given that desktop support people are risk-averse for good reason, they put it off as long as possible.

But there are now a huge number of reasons why it's different. Most people use computers, and indeed for younger users (ie, new hires) XP is ancient history and Windows 7 not much better. You don't have to train people in the mysterious new magic. IT operations have done an upgrade before, so doing it again can build on knowledge of the issues. You don't have the nightmare of IE6-linked apps. It's highly likely, in fact, that the majority of your apps have to work on tablets and phones already, so compatibility over browsers is likely to be less of an issue. And so on, and so on.

ChiefGrasscutter

fred246 wrote: »

I am still on Windows XP. Updates still coming through. Life has not ended.

It has for WinXP security updates.
I've just checked my other Win Xp machine
Last win XP security update was on 10/04/2014. - which was the last support date for XP.

Any update since then are for any MSOffice products you might have on it as I do, any MS .Net updates and possibly until last year the windows malicious software tool update which ceased for XP in July 2015.