[gavin_gee]

it's often a corporate's need for new revenue and security that causes the machine to march on. Just look at this TPM Win 10 upgrade issue.

My 2011 i5 desktop is still happily chugging away as a build server, home storage, and remote host. But oh yes, it will have to be nuked, thanks to MSFT policies.

[Aachen]

Not just Microsoft: look at Google's policy for app developers to target newer and newer devices, keep updating apps with no material changes besides this obsolescence, just to be allowed to stay in the Play Store