Microsoft revealed this week that it will no longer support OneDrive on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 starting on March 1, 2022.
“In order to focus resources on new technologies and operating systems, and to provide users with the most up-to-date and secure experience, beginning January 1, 2022, updates will no longer be provided for the OneDrive desktop application on your personal Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 devices,” Microsoft’s Ankita Kirti writes in the announcement post. “Personal OneDrive desktop applications running on these operating systems will stop syncing to the cloud on March 1, 2022. [And] after March 1, 2022, your personal files will no longer sync.”
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Microsoft naturally recommends that OneDrive users who need local access upgrade their PC to Windows 10 or Windows 11. If for some reason your PC doesn’t support these newer Windows versions, you can continue accessing OneDrive via its web interface.
These dates apply to both OneDrive for consumers and OneDrive for Business.
blue77star
<p>Like I ever used that garbage on my Windows 7.</p>
dftf
<p>A slight tangent, but have they said when <strong>Microsoft Edge </strong>will drop-support for Windows 7?</p><p><br></p><p>Google has recently announced Chrome will continue to receive security-updates only (no new features) on that OS until 15 January 2023 now. I wonder if this will also become true for Edge — the last official-line I can find is that they will end support on 15 Jan 2022, one year earlier…</p>
dftf
<p>Also, given Office365 is security-only supported on Windows 7 until Jan 2023, and that OneDrive comes as part of an O365 subscription, does that mean for business-customers with an active ESU subscription OneDrive will continue to work in that scenario?</p><p><br></p><p>I can see many enterprises taking issue if not, as the whole-point of ESU is things continue to work as they did and get security-only updates for the duration of it…</p>