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Windows 7 and Office 2016 will be reaching the end of support in 2020. As a result, Microsoft will stop sending updates for Windows 7 in January 2020, and the ability to read your email and access OneDrive documents from older versions will be blocked by Microsoft in October of 2020.

IT Services and departmental computer technicians are working on a plan to upgrade approximately 3,000 desktop computers to bring them into the Modern Desktop. With everyone using consistent technology, the entire campus will be more secure and positioned to fully use the latest Microsoft tools to collaborate with faculty, staff, and students. This upgrade will allow the UWindsor community to reimagine communication with Office 365.

This estimated 14 month project will roll out department by department, with education and support customized as necessary. To help us plan for the best support for you and your colleagues, we ask that every employee complete the readiness survey.

Take the First Step: Fill Out the Readiness Survey

For more details, visit the IT Service Web Page (www.uwindsor.ca/itservices). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us through the IT Service Desk at extension 4440.

The pre-planning stage is wrapping up in the next four weeks and we are on-track for the first departmental rollouts in late May. The deployment will go  department-by-department with planning meetings with key people in each department, followed by a customized plan for each department that will include training presentations and demonstrations as required.

• The campus-wide Readiness Survey for all faculty and staff is ready to go.
• Technical presentations have been presented to campus technicians and staff in IT Servces
• Demonstration computers are setup for the various use cases (single user, multiple user (shared), classroom computer, lab computer) at IT Services to help with technical training and testing
• Daily News article and campus-wide faculty+staff email to be sent