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Microsoft will no longer provide security updates or technical support for devices operating on Windows 7 and 8.1, effective January 10, 2023. This may affect how your device works with AOL products if you continue to use an older version of the software.
In January 2023, version 109 of the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge became the last version of Edge to support Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2. [121] Alongside this, several other web browsers based on the Chromium codebase also dropped support for these operating systems after version 109, including ...
[1] [2] [3] Microsoft announced Windows 7 pricing information for some editions on June 25, 2009, and Windows Anytime Upgrade and Family Pack pricing on July 31, 2009. [1] [4] [5] Mainstream support for all Windows 7 editions ended on January 13, 2015, and extended support ended on January 14, 2020.
List of Microsoft Windows versions for personal computers Name Codename Release date Version Editions Build number Architecture End of support Windows 1.01: Interface Manager: November 20, 1985: 1.01 — — x86-16: December 31, 2001 Windows 1.02 — May 14, 1986: 1.02 — — Windows 1.03 — August 21, 1986: 1.03 — — Windows 1.04 ...
Support for themes has been extended in Windows 7. [3] In addition to providing options to customize colors of window chrome and other aspects of the interface including the desktop background, icons, mouse cursors, and sound schemes, the operating system also includes a native desktop slideshow feature.
Since support for Windows 2000 ended on July 13, 2010, Microsoft stopped distributing the tool to Windows 2000 users via Windows Update. The last version of the tool that could run on Windows 2000 was 4.20, released on May 14, 2013. Starting with version 5.1, released on June 11, 2013, support for Windows 2000 was dropped altogether.
Backup and Restore [1] (formerly Backup and Restore Center [2]) is the primary backup component of Windows Vista and Windows 7.It can create file and folder backups, as well as system images backups, to be used for recovery in the event of data corruption, hard disk drive failure, or malware infection.
It is complemented by Get Help, a feature introduced in Windows 10 that enables the user to contact Microsoft directly but does not allow for remote desktoping or screen sharing. Before Quick Assist was introduced in Windows 10, Windows XP and later Windows versions offered a similar feature called Windows Remote Assistance.