Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Post by behnamoh » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025
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Post by JaggerFoo » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

Good thing I'm using Windows 7 Pro.

Cheers

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Post by duxup » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

I'll be honest. I kinda lost track of windows, android, iOS versions at some point. And I think that's probably ok... I use it, it works, there ya go.

Most everything I do really isn't OS dependent.

I do fondly remember the days when OS upgrades was a huge change. I'll always fondly think of the Rolling Stone's "Start Me Up" and trying out OS/2 and various Linux flavors and so on. I used to spend HOURS customizing my OS. (I am amused to see my son do this with his phone).

But now my OS is really just "set dark theme" and roll on.

Productivity wise, that's probably good.

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Post by zadjii » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

> I also find this interesting. I checked Wayback Machine to see if that date has changed and it was the same all the way back in Sept 2020.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/nx0jja/windows_1...

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Post by qwerty456127 » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

JaggerFoo wrote: post #2

Good thing I'm using Windows 7 Pro. Cheers

You probably have a good firewall, don't you?

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Post by hpoe » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

As a life long Linux fan I hold the position that the reason they started moving to Linux is all the MS engineers realized how much easier it was to use Linux when MS first started rolling out Azure and that's why they put in WSL.

My hope is the new Windows is now just the Linux kernel that runs an emulator for windows.

EDIT: For clarification this is mostly meant humorously, but there is some hope there. Because dream big right.

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Post by corndoge » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last Windows version ever? As in it was going to be evergreen? Did I imagine that?

Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...

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Post by whatshisface » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

JaggerFoo wrote: post #2

Good thing I'm using Windows 7 Pro. Cheers

Sadly, support is starting to slip in major applications. For example you can't install Python 3.9 on Windows 7.

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Post by willtim » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

Windows definitely needs improving. I tried the Gnome 40 desktop recently and it's much more polished, consistent and refined.

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Post by Darvokis » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

Is it just me or does it feel like they've been more tightly lipped about Windows 11 than they have about previous upcoming Windows releases?