After 2020, Windows 7 Users Must Be Paid For Updates

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Windows 7 which was released in 2009 is one of the famous OS series for PCs from Microsoft and even quite widely used today, although the update for this Windows series will soon be over.

Tekno Kompas - Microsoft has ensured that the age of use of Windows 7 is only one year away. By 2020, Microsoft will stop supporting this operating system. But users who still want to use the OS Windows 7 and still get security updates after 2020, will be charged a fee with a certain amount, for a period of one year.

The amount of contributions will increase from year to year. This fee will be charged for Enterprise and Microsoft 365 series customers, who can also purchase Windows 7 extended security updates for every single device. Quoted by KompasTekno from Tech Crunch, Tuesday February 12 2019, for support for Windows Enterprise customers who use Windows 7 is 25 USD for the period January 2020 to January 2021.

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If you want to continue to get support after 2021, the user must buy a support package for the next year period at a price of 50 USD for January 2021 to January 2022. In the following year, the price of support also doubled. If the user still wants to use Windows 7 after 2022, then the price to pay is 100 USD for the period January 2022 to January 2023.

This yearly price increase is made so that users switch to newer Windows OS (Windows 10), at lower prices. For Windows 7 Pro users, the price charged is also greater. For the first year, the price to be paid is 50 USD, then for the second year it is 100 USD and the third year is 150 USD.

Microsoft itself has decided to stop Windows 7 support starting next year. If the user chooses not to pay after January 2020, then Microsoft will no longer guarantee security for Windows 7 users. But even though there is only one more year left, it turns out that Windows 7 is still popular among users. Even some time ago a report said there was still an increase in the number of Windows 7 users.

Source: tekno kompas