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By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft announced recently that its Extended Security Updates program for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 users won't be restricted to organizations that made their Windows purchases through its volume licensing offerings.
Previously, volume licensing was a requirement to use the Extended Security Updates program, which adds three years of patch support beyond Windows 7's end-of-support date of Jan. 14, 2020. The change to the Extended Security Updates program, announced by Jared Spataro, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365, opens up Microsoft's patch extension program to smaller and midsize organizations, but only if they are using the Professional or Enterprise editions of Windows 7.
Available in December
Organizations meeting those criteria can buy into the Extended Security Updates program starting on Dec. 1, 2019. They'll be able to enroll though through Microsoft's Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
Here's how a Microsoft partner article expressed it... Continue reading.
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