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This is going to be more common when Windows 7 is no longer supported 2015-01-13.

Windows 7 has security support through January 2020 [1]. What's ending this month is "mainstream support", which seems to mean new features, phone support, etc. [2]

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle

[2] See point 6 at http://support2.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy

Extended support for Windows 7 SP1 ends in 2020.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle

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