Today is February 28, 2024, and that means the Surface Pro 7 has officially reached the end of servicing date for firmware and drivers. The five-year-old 2-in-1 tablet that was first launched in 2019 has essentially reached its end of life and is now no longer supported by Microsoft.
As worrying as it sounds, even though the Surface Pro 7 is no longer getting firmware updates as of today, the Windows 10 or Windows 11 operating system powering it will still get security and other updates. That means you can keep using it through 2025 if you’re on Windows 10, and beyond that if you’ve upgraded the device to Windows 11.
Depending on which configuration you own, the Surface Pro 7 is a pretty decent Windows tablet even in 2024. It might not have the thin bezels and haptic feedback that the Surface Pro 8 and Pro 9 offer, but the 8th-generation Intel CPUs under the hood are very decent for everyday productivity. The device also added a USB-C port, too, which we now see on all modern Surface devices.
Microsoft recently tweaked the way that it supports Surface devices. Devices released before January 1, 2021, only get four years of driver and firmware updates. Devices released after the date get at least six years of driver and firmware updates.
