Sign In Register. Sign Out Sign In Register. Latest Insider. Check out the latest Insider stories here. More from the IDG Network. The retail pricing for Windows 7 licenses and product keys , for both Full Packaged Product FPP and Upgrade licenses have been made known months earlier.
Microsoft does also provide another variant of license, OEM license and product key see the differences between full retail, upgrade retail, OEM and volume licensing Windows license , which is priced at more attractive and cheaper pricing point. OEM System Builder License for Windows 7 is meant for packaging or bundling with hardware purchase, or for pre-installation on a new personal computer for resale.
This article is intended for use by IT professionals. If you're looking for information for home users, see Windows 7 support ended on January 14, After January 14, , if your PC is running Windows 7, and you haven't purchased Extended Security Updates, the computer will no longer receive security updates.
Extended Support end dates for Windows 7 Embedded vary by edition. For more information, go to the following websites:. Organizations can purchase ESU at any time during the three years that the offer is available , , and If an organization waits and purchases ESU for the first time in year two or year three, they'll also have to pay for the preceding years.
It's because the security updates that are offered under the ESU program are cumulative. Although organizations can purchase ESU at any time, they won't have received bug fixes or security updates since January 14, without ESU.
Additionally, Microsoft Support no longer provides any form of support for these customers. Because the updates are cumulative, organizations must pay for the preceding years if they purchase Windows 7 ESU for the first time in year two or year three.
That is, customers must have purchased coverage for year 1 of ESU in order to buy year 2, and coverage for year 2 in order to buy year 3. Customers may buy coverage for previous years at the same time they buy coverage for a current period. It's unnecessary to buy a certain period of coverage within that coverage period. VL customers: Contact your Account Team CE for pricing and ordering information that is tailored to specific customer scenarios. You can find a qualified partner at this site.
Windows 7 ESU will be made available as a separate SKU for each of the years in which it's offered , , and Installation and activation of the Year one SKU is not required. ESU is licensed per device. In other words, it's not the VMs that must be counted, but the terminals.
If you purchase Windows 7 ESU before the monthly invoice generation date, the purchase will be shown on the previous month's invoice. It won't be shown on the current calendar month's invoice. Windows XP and Windows Vista support has already ended, and no further support is available. Customers are encouraged to move to Windows 10 to take advantage of the latest in security and reliability. Windows 7 ESU will include support for the. NET Framework 4. NET Framework 3.
After this date, Windows 7 ESU will include. Yes, there's an ESU program specifically for embedded devices. For more information, see the ESU deployment section in this article.
However, the MSE platform will no longer be updated.
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