
Additionally, it announced this week that it will also support Microsoft Edge on Windows 7 until at least January 2025. 0Patch, known for keeping operating systems and programs alive beyond official support ranges, announced that it will support Windows 7 with at least two additional years of critical security updates. Many programs won't receive updates anymore and the situation looks identical to the one that Windows 8.1 users face. Microsoft won't release updates for it anymore, even though there is still demand for that. Windows 7, which receives the last ESU patches on Tuesday as well, looks to be in a similar situation on first glance.

Browsers and other programs will stop getting updates, and some websites will refuse to work as new technologies are no longer supported by the browsers. Windows 8.1 users may continue using it, but the system's security issues will no longer be fixed by Microsoft or anyone else.
