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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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Ah - you've confirmed it. I thought I'd remembered reading something about WIN-10 being the last numbered OS.

I bought my DELL computer about 2 or 3 years as a factory rebuild, with WIN-10 installed. I managed to become accustomed to the usual pointless re-arranging from Win-7, then the Seattle shower changed it to WIN-11 without my permission, a process that not only gave me a much sloppier directory ordering and poorer-quality file-sorting.

It also wiped out my photographs archive system in trying to install them all on Microsoft's so-called "cloud". It did not lose many photos though some others became mysteriously corrupted; but simply deleted my folder system and mixed them all up!

What was odd that it also took random photos from my archive, mixed with random images it found God-knows-where, and placed these within the gimmick-ridden "news" service revealed by clicking on an innocuous weather indicator in the corner of the screen.

I re-ordered my photographs that Microsoft calls "pictures" (!) into my own directly under a different name, but I cannot put its link in the main desktop menu, alongside other documents.

Then it prevented my extension hard-drives from working on it, ones I'd intended as reserves and for transferring files between this and my previous, now off-line, WIN-7 PC.

...

I have the impression Microsoft has run out of ideas, and apart from security up-dates, all it can do now is tinker around the edges, not improving anything.