[developer2]

Extended Support ended January 14, 2020, however Microsoft is offering Extended Security Updates (ESU) until January, 2023. It's a paid program to extend security patches, having to be paid once a year for each of the 3 years; so only truly desperate companies are paying for this privilege.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-secu...

[2] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/y...

[Silhouette]

But the Update Catalog shows updates that you can apparently download as usual for Windows 7 in this case. There is a specific rationale given on at least one of the reports[1] for why a patch is still being issued even though Windows 7 is out of support. So I'm not sure this time it has anything to do with ESU.

[1] https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/...

[tgragnato]

Last week I saw a friend using dot net software that scrapes the Catalog, automatically downloads all patches and applies them to the system. It's apparently common in enterprises without an ESU subscription... I was quite surprised and amused