Microsoft offers extended Windows 7 updates for small, midsize businesses

Businesses will have to pay to receive extended security updates through 2023.

What you need to know

Microsoft has expanded Windows 8 extended security updates for small and midsize businesses.
Extended security updates will be available through January of 2023.
Windows 7 will reach end-of-support status on January 14, 2020.
Microsoft announced today that it will offer Windows 7 extended security updates (ESU) for small and midsize businesses. With Windows 7 set to hit end-of-support on January 14, 2020, this expansion means all business users will be able to take advantage of ESUs for a fee.

From Microsoft:


While many of you are well on your way to deploying Windows 10, we understand that everyone is at a different point in the upgrade process. With that in mind, today we are announcing that, through January 2023, we will extend the availability of paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) to businesses of all sizes.


Prior to today's announcement, ESUs were only set to...