Despite the advanced notice that Microsoft was to end its extended support for Windows 7 operating system (OS) on January 14, 2020, many businesses still choose to stick with it. Their reasons for doing so can range from the practical (no money to upgrade the computer to run a newer OS) to the potentially dangerous (“it’s working okay, so why should I change it?”)
It’s easy to procrastinate if things are working as they always have, but the reality is that businesses around the world began to see and experience unexpected, and sometimes unexplained, effects of the end of support on their Windows 7 machines.