Yes, you can buy official Win7 security patches – sign up for the Extended Security Updates – but the first year costs $61 per system and you have to jump through a lot of hoops (see Gregg Keizer’s Last-minute answers about Windows 7's post-retirement patches and Susan Bradley’s Hunting for an elusive Win7 ESU license, paywalled). But you likely made that switch years ago. Yes, you need to stop using Internet Explorer. You need to move to a different antivirus. No, Microsoft Security Essentials won’t get updated. In fact, it’ll keep getting patches (on an unpatched Win7!) until Oct. No, Office 2010 won’t stop working on Win7. No, your Win7 computer won’t be pwned by the bad guys any time soon, if you exercise even a modicum of common sense. 14 doesn’t “put company and staff data at risk, as well as that of suppliers, partners, and customers, because security patches will no longer be available.” They did for XP when WannaCry appeared, years after XP went end-of-life, but past performance isn’t necessarily indicative of future results. No, we don’t know if Microsoft will release any more free security patches for Windows 7. No, your Internet Service Provider won’t kick you off your network for using Win7. No, the old Win7 patches aren’t disappearing.
No, Microsoft isn’t withdrawing its unofficial nod-and-a-wink free upgrade from Win7 to Win10.
No, you don’t need to install the latest Win7 patches right away.
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