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.
More than 70 computers in general-purpose classrooms across campus are being upgraded for the start of Fall 2019 classes.
Windows 10 and the latest version of Microsoft Office 365 are being installed on all machines. Going forward, updates will be completed automatically ensuring these classroom computers match university computer standards.
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.
