[dayglored]

Microsoft wants you on Windows 10 SO BAD that now, if you have modern computer hardware (latest CPU), they will refuse to give you the security updates they promised for Win 7 through Jan 2020, and for Win 8.1 through Jan 2023. And this even means the "mainstream" support for Win 8.1 which is still supposedly active until Jan 2018!

Basically, Microsoft is saying:

"Say, nice little computer ya got there... be a shame if anything happened to it... how about you upgrade to Windows 10 now?"

So now THIS MEANS NOTHING if you were so careless as to purchase a computer with a modern CPU.

Hopefully someone will work out a way to get the updates, without having to play too many stupid games or latch onto somebody's WSUS.

[Wuli]

Thank goodness my briefly older HP desktop must be a step behind the “latest and greatest” CPUs, as Windows 7 Home Premium continues (last one yesterday) to receive and process the OS updates for it - automatically, hands off.

[RFEngineer]

I’m way ahead of them. I turned off updates a long time ago when they starred auto downloading windows 10.

[ontap]

When this computer gives up the ghost I’m getting a used Apple!!!