You may have noticed that Microsoft’s support for Windows 7 changed yesterday: ‘mainstream’ support ended. However, ‘extended’ support continues until January 14, 2020.

In Microsoft parlance, ‘mainstream’ support includes requests for feature changes, certain free support options (eg. phone support), and non-security updates. Now that Windows 7 is in the ‘extended’ support phase, Microsoft will no longer be changing the O/S, except to fix security issues.

In other words, there’s no need to panic. Windows 7 will continue to get security updates until 2020.