Microsoft will discontinue support for Windows 10 in a year and a half 🤬

I understood and respected it when support for older versions was dropped when those weren't sold for 10+ years anymore and only 0.5% of Windows users was still on them. Those customers probably needed a new machine anyway and fixing security threats for so few people is expensive, so okay.

But 70% of users is still on Windows 10 and machines sold as little as 3 years ago are incompatible with an upgrade to Windows 11. Those machines could have lasted much longer.

Besides, when Windows 10 came out, it was announced as the final version. From then on there would only be security updates and minor feature additions but no more complete replacements. Well, that aged like milk...

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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

Great. Well, it's been a fun ride, but I can't afford a new computer just to continue getting support, so I guess fuсk me.

NerdyPotato ·

@LordShadowfire exactly... I might be able to afford it if nothing else breaks in the meantime, and that's a big if, but it shouldn't be necessary yet anyway.

Of course you can keep using it without support, but it's risky. I wouldn't use internet banking or check my medical records without the latest updates, so it makes a PC a whole lot less useful.

Ontheroad · M

@LordShadowfire maybe a new processor, or at least a newer one?

NerdyPotato ·

@Ontheroad a quick search said I'm missing a part that's usually built into the motherboard. Finding a new one that's fully compatible with everything else and getting the processor off the old one undamaged is a royal pain. Thankfully I'll still have a year to look for a suitable one, so maybe it's possible. But ugh... Windows 10 and the machine work fine, so I didn't want to upgrade in the first place.

Ontheroad · M

@NerdyPotato I hear you - before buying the one I'm on now I built and upgraded all mine for years and years and it can be tedious at best.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@Ontheroad I don't know. I'll see where we are in a year and a half, I guess.

NerdyPotato ·

@LordShadowfire I just found out that it was announced on their website much earlier and there has already been a petition. Microsoft has since promised to offer longer support against payment. 😒 That wasn't in the message that popped up in Windows itself though and there are a bunch of other problems with that strategy, but I won't bore you with that.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@NerdyPotato Oh, thank goddess.

Still gonna see about an upgrade.