Exactly 28 days from today — on January 14, 2020 — Microsoft will end 10 years of support for Windows 7.
Win7 will continue to boot and run after that date, but will no longer receive security updates, making it vulnerable to new hacks.
If you’re still using Windows 7, it’s way past time to make your move to something — Win10, Linux, Mac, whatever — that will still receive support after January 20.
Full info from Microsoft.
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I’ve been holding off on upgrading one of my Win 7 machines, because I have a very old copy of Quicken, and docs indicate that that version can’t be installed on Win 10 (and data can’t be upgraded to a more current version, which I do have on a new Win 10 machine). My intention has been to keep that machine on Win 7 and running the old version of Quicken, where the machine is accessable through my LAN, but has no Internet Access. In the meantime, I found that with another machine that also has that version, I just upgraded to Win 10, and the existing installation of Quicken is behaving fine. Having proven that this version of Quicken will run if already installed, then I upgrade sooner.
Although there’s definitely annoyances with Win 10 (as there have been with previous releases of Windows), I’ve worked with it long enough that I’m comfortable with it. I’ve upgraded enough machines (both Home and Pro) that I haven’t seen problems with upgrades, and I’m now convinced that the only reason not to upgrade would be having an essential application that can’t run in Windows 10.