{"id":13024,"date":"2019-09-03T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/?p=13024"},"modified":"2019-09-11T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T12:19:11","slug":"goodbye-windows-7-and-hello-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/2019\/09\/03\/goodbye-windows-7-and-hello-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Windows 7 and Hello Windows 10!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of January 14, 2020, Microsoft will discontinue support for its Windows 7 Operating System. If you are running Windows 7 or older, your machine will no longer receive security updates or fixes, software updates, and\/or technical support. Without security patches, these systems will be easy targets for hackers, malware, and viruses.<\/p>\n<p>Montclair State University requires that devices connected to the network run software for which security patches are made available in a timely fashion. After support ends, Windows 7 will no longer be in compliance with campus policy.<\/p>\n<p>Montclair State University is already in the process of upgrading\u00a0<strong>University-owned<\/strong>\u00a0machines to Windows 10.\u00a0 For users that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to campus or have an unmanaged Windows device, you will be\u00a0<strong>required to upgrade your Windows 7 machine to Windows 10 to connect to the network<\/strong>. Please make plans to upgrade your personal or unmanaged device now to prevent any unintended connectivity issues accessing University sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of January 14, 2020, Microsoft will discontinue support for its Windows 7 Operating System. If you are running Windows 7 or older, your machine will no longer receive security updates or fixes, software updates, and\/or technical support. Without security patches, these systems will be easy targets for hackers, malware, and viruses. Montclair State University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":13009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[16,25,24],"class_list":["post-13024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","category-news","tag-it-service-desk","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13069,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024\/revisions\/13069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}