THE END OF LIFE FOR WINDOWS 7: WHAT IT MEANS FOR COMPANIES

Windows 7 reached it's End-of-Life today, so what will this mean for companies that choose not leave the operating system?

Due to the out-of-date security that Windows 7 will provide compared to the latest operating systems, companies choosing to stick with Windows 7 after its End-of-Life could be at higher risk to cyber attacks.

Another major pitfall that these companies will experience is the cost that will come with needed support, having been offered by Windows for free previously.

Microsoft are expected to charge Windows 7 Enterprise customers $25 per device, and Windows 7 Pro customers $50 per device, up until January 2021, after which costs will rise over the last two years of the extended support’s duration.

Research by Cloudhouse has found that 96% of the UK’s FTSE 100 and 250 companies are still running legacy applications on Windows, and Cloudhouse CTO Nick Coleman, says that compliance could also be a factor that these firms need to consider. “I’d like to think that organisations who have compliance requirements for whatever reason don’t have the same dependency on Windows 7,” he said. “So you would like to think that regulated industries such as financial services or healthcare, would have already made the move away because they would be out of compliance if they were not on supported platforms.

“So the first thing is that organisations need to look at their corporate risk profile and their compliance profile and ensure that they’ve got a solution to that issue.”

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