[wmil]

It's strange that they are ending Windows 10 support so soon after they stopped selling it. Windows 11 came out October 5, 2021.

Edge came out in 2015 and they kept supporting IE11 until June 15, 2022.

Given that the major Windows 11 features were things like introducing a screen grabber to make your passwords and private data vulnerable to theft, it's no wonder people have resisted adopting it.

[daveoc64]

>It's strange that they are ending Windows 10 support so soon after they stopped selling it.

Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 - all of these had a published 10 year support lifecycle when they came out.

Windows 10's end of support is completely expected and as planned.

With Windows 11, they've moved it to a new lifecycle model, so it's less clear how long it will be supported for.

[loeg]

> Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 - all of these had a published 10 year support lifecycle when they came out.

Windows 10 at one point advertised that it was the last "new" release of Windows ever.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/938964/microsoft-clarif...

I guess it was one exec at a conference, but they didn't really explicitly disclaim the statement either.

[7bit]

What's your point? Windows 7 had 11 years of support. Windows 10 had 10. Nothing strange about it.

[wongarsu]

- Windows 8.1 had 7 years of support after Windows 10 was released.

- Windows 7 was supported for 7 years after Windows 8 came out.

- Same for Vista after 7 and Windows XP after Vista.

- Windows ME had 5 years of support after the release of Windows XP

- Windows 98 had 6 years after ME.

- Windows 1, 2, 3.0 and 3.1 all had 6 years of support after Windows 95 came out.

Only 4 years of support after the release of the next version of the operating system is highly unusual for Microsoft. They have always supported previous versions long enough that you could skip one version without running out of support, usually even two entire releases.

Instead they follow the schedule introduced in the "Windows 10 is the last Windows" era where two new versions are released each year and each version has three years of support. But this only makes sense if you treat Windows 11 as a rebranded Windows 10 that got a new name for legal reasons. Which Microsoft pretends it isn't, so I don't feel compelled to follow that reasoning when it benefits them. They can't have it both ways

[slowmovintarget]

Microsoft is desperate to push people to their always on-line pay-per-boot operating system. They succeeded in pushing me out of Windows altogether. When I bought a new gaming / AI rig, I moved to Linux.

[7bit]

Microsoft never said Win 10 would be the last release. That is an urban myth.

And the x years of support after the next Windows release is irrelevant. Their product support is more or less 10 years and that didn't change. People were skipping versions because they want to use their license as long as possible and they still do that with win 10.