If you want to use Windows 7 for some special dated software, you can use it but do so sparingly. Note: Since Windows 7 has reached End-of-Life, we don’t recommend using Windows 7 for day-to-day tasks. We checked the links on VirusTotal, and none of the security vendors flagged it. The links are directly from Microsoft’s servers and are absolutely legitimate.

Thankfully, some official download links are still active, and you can use them to download the ISO files. Although it was allowing users to download Windows 7 ISO files from its recovery page until 2021, that option has also been removed now. It really gives off an air of sloppiness, and again, I would not expect that from Microsoft these days.Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 7 back in 2020, and thereafter, it stopped offering the option to download Windows 7 ISOs. But making it available from a long-abandoned web page that is accessible only via Microsoft's browser, requires an ActiveX add-on, and doesn't work is just baffling. The rollup, service pack, call it what you will, is desperately needed and a good decision. This package will be distributed over Windows Update. This will be a continuously evolving, cumulative batch of non-security fixes. So, the dependency doesn't qualify it as a service pack.įor updates released after April 2016, Microsoft also plans to produce monthly rollups of non-security updates for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012/R2. You could install SP2 for Windows XP without having to install SP1 first. One reason why Microsoft is not calling it Service Pack 2 is because it requires Service Pack 1 to be installed. That's amateur hour I would not expect from Microsoft these days. I tried to add them to the cart, and no luck. After installing an ActiveX add-on, I was given a catalog with either the Windows 7 rollup or the Server 2008 rollup, plus a separate Windows 7 patch. So, I loaded the page in IE 11 instead of Firefox. If you prefer to use a different Web browser, you can get updates from the Microsoft Download Center.

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