Today, Redmond-based Microsoft
announced that they would no-longer send out security updates for
their Windows
8 operating system and several
version of their Internet Explorer (IE) browser. This means that
if you still use Windows Vista or Windows 7 you will be fine since
they are still being supported. If you are in the minority that use
Windows 8 you will need to go to the Windows store and get either the
free Windows 8.1 or the free Windows 10 updates. As for the IE
browser you will need to upgrade to either IE 11 or the Edge browser
that comes with Windows 10.
It sounds straightforward enough but it
get slightly complex if you are running either Windows Vista or
Windows Server 2012. Since Windows Vista can not run any version of
IE above 9 you will still be able to get updates for IE 9 until
Windows Vista is set to be retired sometime next year. If you run
Windows Server 2012 you will still be able to get updates for IE 10
since it is the highest compatible version for the operating system.
Back on Oct 25, 2012 Redmond-based
Microsoft released Windows 8. The new operating system radically
changed the look and feel of previous versions of Windows. Gone from
this new system were many of the features that people have become use
to seeing when they would power up their desktop or laptop. Since it
looked and felt so much different this meant that to update to
Windows 8 was going to required plenty of retraining that they just
did not want to do. For this reason many opted to stay with either
Windows Vista or Windows 7.
In Oct 2013
Microsoft released Windows
8.1 update or as it now being called service pack 1. Windows 8.1
brought back some of the features that were left out of Windows 8.
Windows 8.1 did get more people to upgrade from the previous versions
of Windows but there were still plenty of holdouts that opted to stay
with both Windows Vista and Windows 7.
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