Will Win7 get an extension on suppport, the way WinXP did? Microsoft vowed with a mighty oath that they would never do such a thing again... but who knows...
The fact is, Microsoft keeps generating the security updates for the high-rolling paying enterprise customers. They’re STILL doing it for WinXP. They’ll have the Win7 updates for years to come — they just don’t want to give them away for free.
Yep. What you said.
(W10 here at home along with a couple Linux machines. W7 Pro at the office and business laptops.)
As a Senior I.T. Exec in a very large enterprise I'll tell you why: migration costs.
It has nothing to do with "high value data" sitting on local Windows 7 systems because any such data resides on network devices that are regularly backed up.
The biggest problem that I see with moving from one version of Windows to another over the thirty plus years I've been in I.T. is legacy applications, among them Microsoft Office.
Users with macro's, vbscript and other Microsoft Office integration capabilities with back-end data often don't want to change or can't change because those capabilities are still in use while the original creator of them may be long gone from the organization. The people who end up using these capabilities, often for years don't know how they work, just that "they work" and they for some magical, unknown reason cannot change.
It's getting all this old crap to work with newer versions, tasks often performed by I.T. because users are too stupid to know how to do it, that takes the most time moving from one version of Windows to another.
I've seen this over and over again over thirty glorious years across various industries.
It's not an I.T. issue, a technology issue or a Windows issue, it's an end-user issue.
We’re in the middle of migrating about 60,000 users off Windows 7 to Windows 10. It’s happening at the Enterprise level but I would expect most of those move will happen this year since most will wait as long as they can.