ESUs: WINDOWS 10
Windows 10 will come to end of support on October 14, 2025. Microsoft’s April 2024 article confirms that there will be three years of ESUs available from that date, and additions to the article made in October 2024 confirm that…
ESUs: WINDOWS 7
Windows 7 was released on October 22, 2009 and reached the end of its support lifecycle on January 14, 2020. At this time regular security updates were no longer programmatically provided, but customers who needed to continue running Windows 7…
Exchange rate price adjustments
February 2025 – Online Services – BRL, GBP BRL: increase of 12%. GBP: decrease of around 5 to 6%. Announced in December 2024. February 2025 – on-premises products – BRL BRL: increase of 12%. Announced in December 2024. September 2024…
Product price adjustments
July 2025 – Enterprise CAL Suite 20% increase. Announced in April 2025. July 2025 – Core CAL Suite 15% increase. Announced in April 2025. July 2025 – SharePoint Server SE 10% increase. Announced in April 2025. July 2025 – Skype…
Resources: Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 ESUs
Online training If you’re a High Schooler or have access to the Dear Louise training sessions you can register for the Windows Server 2012/2012 R2: Extended Security Updates training which we ran in April 2025. It’s a 53-minute session covering:…
Included use rights
If you’ve paid for Azure Arc ESUs for production servers, then you can also use ESUs on disaster recovery servers. In addition, if you’ve got a dev/test server which is licensed through a product key obtained from a Visual Studio…
Resources: Flexible Virtualization Benefit
Online training If you are a High Schooler, or have access to the Dear Louise training sessions, then you can register for two training sessions that we ran in January 2025: Session 1 Dear Louise: Flexible Virtualization Benefit: Server training,…