Good news from 0Patch; Microsoft plans to stop supporting Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems starting in January 2020. However, businesses using the operating systems will be able to extend support for up to three years.
Most businesses and of course regular users of the operating system will not pay Microsoft to extend support. However, the company SecurityPatch announced on September 21, 2019, that it will install Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to distribute and distribute security updates for the operating system after January 2020.
The company has already released some micropatches to cover Windows security vulnerabilities before the official release from Microsoft.
The company says:
Security updates that Microsoft releases for supported versions of Windows will be reviewed to determine which ones can also be used for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. 0Patch will determine whether the selected updates are dangerous enough to warrant a security update.If the vulnerabilities affect both versions of Windows, 0Patch will create a PoC or use an existing one if it has already been published by other security researchers.
Engineers will then use Microsoft's code that fixes the vulnerability to release updates to operating systems that are no longer supported.
It should be mentioned that the Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 operating systems are still used on many machines worldwide.
So even though Microsoft is urging users to upgrade to Windows 10, we find it very difficult. That's why SecurityPatch thought it would be a great idea if a third party released the patches.
But who trusts a third party to fix their operating system? It will be very interesting to see if many follow 0Patch, and if so, how it will handle the responsibility.
