With the Windows 7 end-of-support clock slowly winding correct January 14, 2020, Microsoft is announcing it should offer, for their fee, continuing security updates on the product through January 2023. This is not the first time Microsoft has done this for almost any version of Windows, however may be the beginner it has been so public about its offers do so.

Windows 7 is still equipped with a large share of your respective overall Windows market, especially among business customers. Moving off older versions of Windows works as a slow process, that's what is advance planning, for businesses with multiple a huge number of Windows desktop machines.

The paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) will probably be sold on a per-device basis, on the price increasing every. These ESUs is going to be available to any Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise users with volume-licensing agreements, and also with Windows Software Assurance and/or Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Education subscriptions will get a discount. Office 365 ProPlus will continue to work on devices with Windows 7 Extended Security Updates through January 2023.

There are of key differences in between old Custom Support Agreements which enabled enterprise people to continue receiving security updates for the version of Windows that Microsoft wasn't longer supporting that ESUs, said Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft 365.

Before, Microsoft ran this product through its consulting practice, meaning the extended updates were available just the largest customers with deep pockets -- and active Premier Support Agreements (in the example of Windows XP, at the very least). In the past, customers needed to show Microsoft their plans for migrating up from the no-longer-supported version of Windows. They have to provide quarterly deployment milestones and then a project completion date, in conjunction with paying multiple vast amounts of money for extended patch coverage.

This period, the ESU program will be run out of Microsoft's Volume Licensing Unit and Core Windows Engineering "is producing these updates like the product," Spataro explained.

"We want to encourage people to gain off Windows 7, but we want to be make it a lot more than something punitive," he explained.

Customers curious about finding out a little more about the Windows 7 ESUs should contact their partner or Microsoft account team examine.

In other migration news, Microsoft is announcing a completely new Desktop App Assure service today, September 6. Microsoft officials said based upon customer and Windows Insider information, 99 % of existing Windows 7 apps are work with new Windows 10 updates, and perhaps they are willing to back that claim with this cool product.

Desktop App Assure makes it possible for users who encounter any app compatibility issues right after a Windows 10 or Office 365 ProPlus Update of filing a ticket through FastTrack this will let you Microsoft engineer talk with them so that the issues are resolved.

Desktop App Assure shall be free to Windows 10 Enterprise and Education customers. A preview associated with the service in Nova scotia will start off on October 1 grow to be available worldwide by February 1, 2019.

Microsoft also announced that the Windows Analytics services being expanded and integrated with ConfigMgr to create new service called Desktop Analytics, which is actually meant to help customers ascertain the upgrade readiness within their Windows and Office clients. Microsoft will provide you with more information for the service at Ignite soon after September.