Microsoft has made some changes to its support policies for Windows 7, Vista, and XP in order to streamline and simplify its Lifecycle support schedule. If you're not familiar, Microsoft has its plans for when it'll stop updating older versions of the operating system completely laid out: five years of complete support for everyone with at least five more years of security updates for commercial users only. That changed this month, however, and now all customers will benefit from those extra five years of guaranteed security updates.
As ZDNet points out, Microsoft's updated policy won't have much of an effect on users because security updates after mainstream support ended have always made their way to all users, even if they were only...
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