{"id":12454,"date":"2019-10-18T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moderneuc.com\/?p=12454"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:02:25","slug":"55-working-days-remaining-on-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/55-working-days-remaining-on-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"55 Working Days Remaining on Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As of today, there are 87 calendar days to the end of extended support for Windows 7<\/strong> on January 14, 2020. Having said this, effectively, customers have about 55 working days<\/strong> (not counting holidays) left to migrate their Windows 7 devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early this week, Microsoft updated their March 12, 2019 Blog post Making the transition to Windows 10 and Office 365<\/a> with the following editor note: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are now extending the notifications discussed below to Windows 7 Po devices to ensure our customers are aware of the end of support for Windows 7 and can take action to remain productive and secure. Devices that are domain-joined as a part of an IT-managed infrastructure will not receive the notifications.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft has stated that it won’t be giving technical support, software updates or issue security fixes for Windows 7 after it reaches end of support and these devices run a greater risk of getting viruses or malware with continued use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a customer has identified devices that will remain on Windows 7 it is highly recommended that they get Windows 7 Extended Update Support  at a cost  $50.00  per device.<\/a> (This was previously available only to large enterprise customers, and as of a few weeks ago Microsoft made it available to organizations of all sides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To put it into context: If a customer has 1,000 devices left on Windows 7, that means they would have to actively migrate 18 devices per day \/ 5 days per week to meet the deadline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My organization, Dell Technology Services<\/a> helps many companies with this transition, but in my travels, I have encountered   many that despite their best efforts are having significant challenges with their Windows 7 to Windows 10 migrations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of today, there are 87 calendar days to the end of extended support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020. Having said this, effectively, customers have about 55 working days (not counting holidays) left to migrate their Windows 7 devices. Early this week, Microsoft updated their March 12, 2019 Blog post Making the transition…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[681,441],"tags":[742,326,409],"class_list":["post-12454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moderneuc2","category-tech-talk","tag-moderneuc1","tag-windows","tag-windows-7"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":681,"label":"ModernEUC"},{"value":441,"label":"Tech Talk"}],"post_tag":[{"value":742,"label":"ModernEUC"},{"value":326,"label":"Windows"},{"value":409,"label":"Windows 7"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Windows7-55days-FeaturedImage-730x430-updraft-pre-smush-original.jpg",730,430,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jorge Pereira","author_link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/author\/jorge\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":681,"name":"ModernEUC","slug":"moderneuc2","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":691,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":261,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":681,"category_count":261,"category_description":"","cat_name":"ModernEUC","category_nicename":"moderneuc2","category_parent":0},{"term_id":441,"name":"Tech Talk","slug":"tech-talk","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":451,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":678,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":441,"category_count":678,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Tech Talk","category_nicename":"tech-talk","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":742,"name":"ModernEUC","slug":"moderneuc1","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":752,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":284,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":326,"name":"Windows","slug":"windows","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":336,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":93,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":409,"name":"Windows 7","slug":"windows-7","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":419,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518872,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454\/revisions\/518872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}