Posted on 07/19/2015 4:55:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft today refreshed its Windows support lifecycle fact sheet to include Windows 10, saying there that it would provide updates to the new OS for 10 years, or until October 2025.
The new information puts to rest one of the biggest remaining questions about Windows 10: what has Microsoft meant since January by describing the policy as running for the supported lifetime of the device when it described the operating system's support timeline?
"The traditional 10-year support lifecycle applies to all SKUs [stock-keeping units]," a Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed in a follow-up email [emphasis added]. SKUs represent the various editions of the OS, such as Windows 10 Home, the primary consumer-grade version, Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise.
The fact sheet now includes a one-line mention that lists "Windows 10, released in July 2015," a departure from the name-only practice that showed "Windows 8" for that operating system but sans a date.
Windows 10 will be supported for five years in "mainstream" support until Oct. 13, 2020, and then another five years in "extended" support until Oct. 14, 2025.
Traditionally, Microsoft has split the decade of OS support into those two categories, offering both security and bug fixes in mainstream but only security updates in extended.
Windows 10, however, will use a new -- and for Microsoft, a radical -- approach where feature and functional, UI (user interface) and UX (user experience) changes will be delivered on a continual cadence to make good on its claim of "Windows as a service." That's a major departure from the past, even from Windows 8, which was updated 12 months after its debut with new features and functionality by Windows 8.1.
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Full of spyware.
You can load software to make windows 8 look just like windows 7.
Look up “classic shell” for windows 8.
That’s what I did, it’s the only reason I like the 8.1 now.
Windows 7 will be supported for a few more years, so, you don’t have to upgrade to Windows 10.
Meanwhile, I’ve been using Windows 8.1 with no problems at all, and in reality, it looks just like Windows 7 when I use it with the legacy desktop UI So, why can’t people just use the old desktop UI, and take advantage of all the new features and the faster speeds of their machines?
People have all kinds of excuses for why Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 are not for them, but none of those excuses make any sense.
BTW, there are alternatives to Windows, such as Linux and even OSX with Macs, and if you have no need for anything besides a glorified browser, then, Chromebooks will be ‘good enough’. But, whatever the alternatives, they just can’t match Windows for ease of use and number of available applications and compatibility with all makes and models of PCs and peripherals.
Microsoft is losing thousands of customers for every change.
How many million Boomers are there? Gen-x is getting up there. My daughter is 23 and she’s frustrated with Windows 8.
The nerds forget who they’re selling to. PEOPLE. Not just nerds. That’s where the bulk of their money is coming from.
Now, if *everyone* (but a few troglodytes) loves progress so much, why is Windows 7 still the best selling OS on the planet again? Why is our own government paying Microsoft to support Windows XP on their systems?
Perhaps the extra training actually costs time, money, and productivity? Maybe?
It always a good thing to encourage people to visit CNET’s Download.com to replace a basic function in Windows—especially when there are no guarantees in its functionality. If it breaks, troubleshooting over the phone should be a cakewalk.
You just spoke five words in Greek to me.
And I don’t want to have to learn Greek to argue on the internet! lol!
Maybe all Beta testers should be over the age of 60 with just a high school diploma. ;-)
I think that, even you and your 23 year old daughter, will eventually migrate your devices to Windows 10. Nothing to fear,and it will actually be a great upgrade.
MS might lose thousands of users, but, they also have over 1.5 billion devices in the wild with Windows inside. So, get over it.
The complete Windows 8 paradigm was ONLY to make desktop programmers compliant to cross-compile to a Microsoft Phone environment. And THAT has cost Microsoft and their suppliers a TON of lost opportunity and revenue—so much so, that Microsoft is telling all of us, “Our bad. Can we hit the reset button like 0bama and Clinton did with Putin?”
Your defense of Microsoft's disastrous attempt to better itself under extremely questionable conditions, is laughable. I support “moving forward, but at what cost?
How about you tell us next week how well driving your car with your tongue went, as you test out progress in your vehicle? (Marie—that's classic!)
Windows Media Center and IE are both gone, from what I have read.
I have to have both, due to other hardware/software that are dependent on them.
I will be sticking with Win7.
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You know what breaks my heart?
That my mother, living a thousand miles away, will never see a video of her great granddaughter because of that attitude. That her mother won’t either. That my in-laws are now stuck on their farm with nothing more than a phone.
Someone will make a mint if they ever tap into that market for a reasonable price.
You do realize that Microsoft has to greatly retreat from their Phone interface for desktop Windows 10, right? Windows 10 will be an easier move than 8 was for people.
Get over yourself. Microsoft admits it was wrong, you should, too.
Thank you.
And these computer people forget that MOST of us take our cars to CAR PEOPLE to be fixed or upgraded.
There is NO other industry that forces their entire consumer base to learn a new skill in order to keep using their product. None.
My brand new microwave works pretty much the same as the microwave that my mother bought in 1982. The stove works the same way that my grandmother’s stove worked in 1955. Thermostat... that took some tweaking to make it automatically change temps when we went to bed, but that was optional and I took two years for me to get around to learning how to do it. My newer car drives exactly the same as my first car in 1986. Push gas... GO. Push brake... STOP. The blinky thing is on the left. Wipers on the right. They did give me A/C and power windows... that’s about it.
But somehow we’re all supposed to be technologically literate and keep up with all the changes with computers... when we’re not computer people.
I know more about computers than I ever WANTED to know. And that’s just so that I can do basic activities.
I’ve got OTHER things to do. This is not my passion.
That makes 2 of us. Windows 7 Ultimate works just fine for me.
Download Classic Shell for her. It returns the “Classic” look for W8/W8.1.
Here I have:
WinXP
Win7
Win8.1
OSX
Linux
Out of all, I like Linux best. It’s the fastest of all and has half the hardware than the other ones.
You’re exaggerating too much, or you don’t really understand the technology or what’s happening.
In fact, with Windows 10 and Windows Phone, things actually get a lot easier and better. The only thing that could make things easier, is for somebody to take the worry out of learning some new tricks and do it all for you. The things you seem to be worrying about are the applications and not the OS. The OS (Windows) is just a facilitator for the real things that you want to accomplish, and it’s those things that you need to worry about.
For most folks, what we now refer to as a computer is primarily a communications and amusement device. Occasionally, actual work is performed on them. All else follows.
You’re exactly right.
Not defending MS, just offering some food for thought...
The changes from 7 to 8 were geared largely towards the rapidly expanding touch screen market.
The User Interface may go back to looking a life more like what you want or are used to, but it will never go all the way back. Win 7 didn’t provide cross platform continuity of experience. Win 8 does to some extent, and Win 10 will to a much greater degree.
That means computers, phones and tablets running Windows will have significant commonalities in the user experience. That means a UI geared towards touch.
I’m not saying anyone has to like it, or dislike it for that matter. But that is the way of the future. Perhaps understanding one of the big reasons for UI changes will help some people who wonder why MS felt the need for changes from W7.
After reading this thread it verifies....what a sad company Microsoft has become.
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