Windows 10: Microsoft commits to 10-year support lifecycle for Windows 10

Full ZDNet article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/microso...or-windows-10/

Microsoft support lifecycle for Windows: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle

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After the supported lifetime of a windows 10 device.

Read the following:

Microsoft commits to 10-year support lifecycle for Windows 10 | ZDNet

 

What will happen when a future update becoms incompatible with an existing system?

Read the following article:

Microsoft commits to 10-year support lifecycle for Windows 10 | ZDNet

 

Now this is great news!!

 

*Ditto *Thumbs

 

Although the Microsoft link itself doesn't give any comfort on the 'supported lifecycle' phrase, as it says:

Ed Bott gives some comfort here:

But there's nothing official there, we only have Ed Bott's word for it. Microsoft themselves still haven't said anything concrete about support for updates on old devices, except to say that they may stop when you're out of OEM support.

 

I thought this was the last Windows, i.e., ad infinitum??? So what is this lifecycle 10-year support stuff? Just playing the *Devil advocate.

 

I'm giggling here, aloud, waiting our resident tinfoil hat member society to start with this *Smile.

Me and Mr. Bott have had quite a different opinion a few times but this quote from him makes me forgive him everything:

I have quite a strong opinion about who of our resident tinfoil hat society starts. Let's see if I am right or wrong...

 

A question. Don't you think that 10 years is sufficient, if you are happy with support for the life of the device?

 

I wonder how the press will take the OEM clause. I really think they are trying to cover the legal aspect. Some computers that are upgrade from windows 7 or 8.1 will fail, which means that your device is not supported.

The question what happens if a driver update or a feature update won't work on a system you upgrade from? Are you out of luck and you have to go back to windows 7 or 8.1 to be secure?

 

Ummmm.. look at the last sentence. that was tinfoil bait

 

LOL No need to bait them; we will see them soon enough

 

Yup! *Biggrin Think about it though, 10 years, will we even be using PC's in 2025? Or will we all be bio hacked, and use some kind of genetically change virus's with nanites that gives us Borg powers? Ok now I'm being geeky*Nerd

 

Wondering will I even be alive in 2025....

 

They could easily extend it. They have to pick some type of time frame to start with. If they had said forever, and then changed their mind latter on down the road, and released Windows 11, people would call them on the free forever statement. This way they have options latter on down the road. In ten years or so they decide what to do. Nothings etched in stone as far as this goes.