Re:What to Expect from Old Windows PC's
by daveoc64 on Monday February 01, 2021 @11:24AM
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The article seems to think that the support period for Windows is "3 to 5 years". It's really 10.
Microsoft offers 5 years of "mainstream" support, where the OS can get feature enhancements and so on, plus an additional 5 years of security and critical bug fixes.
All versions of Windows since Windows XP have seen at least 10 years of support, which makes a lot of this article obsolete.
Someone could have got their PC with Windows 7 in 2009, had a free upgrade to Windows 10 and can get updates until at least 2025.
Microsoft offers 5 years of "mainstream" support, where the OS can get feature enhancements and so on, plus an additional 5 years of security and critical bug fixes.
All versions of Windows since Windows XP have seen at least 10 years of support, which makes a lot of this article obsolete.
Someone could have got their PC with Windows 7 in 2009, had a free upgrade to Windows 10 and can get updates until at least 2025.