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Extended Support ended January 14, 2020, however Microsoft is offering Extended Security Updates (ESU) until January, 2023. It's a paid program to extend securi

Extended Support ended January 14, 2020, however Microsoft is offering Extended Security Updates (ESU) until January, 2023. It's a paid program to extend security patches, having to be paid once a year for each of the 3 years; so only truly desperate companies are paying for this privilege. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-security-updates https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-secu... [2] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/year-two-extended-security-updates-for-windows-7-and-windows/ba-p/1872910 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/y...

Silhouette 5y ago
But the Update Catalog shows updates that you can apparently download as usual for Windows 7 in this case. There is a specific rationale given on at least one of the reports[1] for why a patch is still being issued even though Windows 7 is out of support. So I'm not sure this time it has anything to do with ESU. [1] https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31959 https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/...
- tgragnato 5y ago
  Last week I saw a friend using dot net software that scrapes the Catalog, automatically downloads all patches and applies them to the system. It's apparently common in enterprises without an ESU subscription... I was quite surprised and amused
  - developer2 5y ago
    Hahah, that's actually awesome. Of course someone out there put in the leg work to work around the licensing issue, and then shared it to the (minor?) masses.
  - ck2 5y ago
    If that software is available to the public it would be a great service to name or link it if you can find out what it is.
    - tgragnato 5y ago
      It's not public because of licensing. But it's a simple reimplementation of https://www.wsusoffline.net https://www.wsusoffline.net. Source code here: https://gitlab.com/wsusoffline/wsusoffline https://gitlab.com/wsusoffline/wsusoffline

Silhouette 5y ago

But the Update Catalog shows updates that you can apparently download as usual for Windows 7 in this case. There is a specific rationale given on at least one of the reports[1] for why a patch is still being issued even though Windows 7 is out of support. So I'm not sure this time it has anything to do with ESU. [1] https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31959 https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/...

tgragnato 5y ago
Last week I saw a friend using dot net software that scrapes the Catalog, automatically downloads all patches and applies them to the system. It's apparently common in enterprises without an ESU subscription... I was quite surprised and amused
- developer2 5y ago
  Hahah, that's actually awesome. Of course someone out there put in the leg work to work around the licensing issue, and then shared it to the (minor?) masses.
- ck2 5y ago
  If that software is available to the public it would be a great service to name or link it if you can find out what it is.
  - tgragnato 5y ago
    It's not public because of licensing. But it's a simple reimplementation of https://www.wsusoffline.net https://www.wsusoffline.net. Source code here: https://gitlab.com/wsusoffline/wsusoffline https://gitlab.com/wsusoffline/wsusoffline