Microsoft to end Windows 7 free support in 2020

Microsoft has revealed plans to end free support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020.
Windows 7 was introduced to the world in January 2009 as it succeeded a fairly disastrous Windows Vista release, and over time became a favourite of enterprise and consumers alike for its fresh new look and no-nonsense approach, according to onmsft.com,
Vista had unleashed a number of problems to the windows ecosystem, including an overbearing user account control that had users needing to elevate security privileges for just about everything, a focus on new hardware that left a lot of legacy hardware without working device drivers, and mainly because of those two issues, a bad reputation among Windows users and the tech press.
Microsoft moved Steven Sinofsky from Office to “get the trains running on time,” which he largely did, fixing most of the problems of Vista, re-focusing the marketing on Windows 7 as something new and different, as opposed to Windows Vista R2, which is what it really was.
But time moves on, and after Sinofsky created a debacle of his own with Windows 8, and another reset, Microsoft has settled on Windows 10.
In one year from today, Microsoft will end free support for Windows 7, with any enterprise stragglers needing to pay to continue to get security up dated.