Microsoft allows anyone to download Windows 10 for free and install it without a product key. It’ll keep working for the foreseeable future, with only a few small cosmetic restrictions.

After January 14, 2020, PCs running Windows 7 no longer receive security updates. Therefore, it’s important that you upgrade to a modern operating system such as Windows 10, which can provide the latest security updates to help keep you and your data safer.

Microsoft’s popular Windows 7 operating system reached the end of its support lifecycle in January 2020. … Organizations and businesses that still use Windows 7 devices won’t receive updates anymore for the operating system after January 2023.

Continue Using Your Windows 7 After Windows 7 EOL (End of Life) Download and install a durable antivirus on your PC. … Download and install GWX Control Panel, to further reinforce your system against unsolicited upgrades/updates. Back up your PC regularly; you can back it up once in a week . . . Read more

Windows 7 Select Start > Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Update. In the Windows Update window, select either important updates are available or optional updates are available.

Windows 10 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It is the successor to Windows 8.1, which was released nearly two years earlier, and itself was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, and broadly released for the general public on July 29, 2015.

Unless you have a specific need for some of the more advanced management features, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit is probably your best option.

The Windows 11 operating system was released Oct. 5. Windows 11 started its wide rollout on Oct. 5 — the first major upgrade in six years.

As Microsoft confirmed a month earlier, Windows 11 was officially released on 5 October 2021. … Windows 11 is due out later in 2021 and will be delivered over several months. The rollout of the upgrade to Windows 10 devices already in use today will begin in 2022 through the . . . Read more

Windows 7 was released in October 2009, so its 10-year life cycle has come to a close. Windows 10 was released in 2015, and extended support for the latest version of the OS is slated to end in 2025.