In about 400 days, Windows 7 will get the support guillotine.Microsoft has set the end of general support - the kind that's free to all, and at this point exclusively patches to quash vulnerabilities - as Jan.

14, 2020.

Customers have known that for years, what with Microsoft's once-traditional support policy.But what happens before that date Or after[ Related: Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration guide ]Computerworld used the year or so prior to Windows XP's retirement - that OS was Windows 7's predecessor as an enterprise linchpin - to assemble definite, likely and possible events on 7's calendar.