MARCH 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 101One exception? Oddly enough, it’s Office. If you
subscribe to Office 365 and run Windows 7, you’ll still
receive security updates for Office 365 for the next 3
years, until January 2023. But you won’t receive any
new Office 365 features, which are one of the reasons
for buying Office 365. Office 2010 and the newer
standalone Office suites will be ‘supported’, too – but
only if the problem is specific to Office, and not to the
interaction between Office and Windows 7. In that
case, you’re stuck.
Option 2: Buy a new Windows 10 license
Second, you can upgrade your existing PC with a new
Windows 10 license.
At one point, upgrading to Windows 10 was as
simple as clicking a button and signing up for the
free upgrade. Unfortunately, that window has closed
- maybe. That means paying £219 for Windows 10
Pro, or £119 for Windows 10 Home. That will buy you
At the time of writing,
Microsoft is charging the
same amount for a copy
of Windows 10 Home that
it can send you on a USB,
as well as downloading it
over the Internet