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

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

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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...

I think you're thinking of the Edge browser

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

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> There is little doubt that the system will be called Windows 11, but it may still not be so.

For some reason my gut says it won't be called Windows 11. I have a feeling it will be called something confusing or unappealing. Love MS products but they always fell short with branding.

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

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> There is little doubt that the system will be called Windows 11, but it may still not be so. For some reason my gut says it won't be called Windows 11. I have a feeling it will be called something confusing or unappealing. Love MS products but they always fell short with branding.

Are we past the naming phase for Windows X or Windows One?

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

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post #7

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...

Microsoft marketing is totally schizophrenic. Never believe a fucking word of it for a second and your life will be good.

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

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post #6

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 dre…

bingo..

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

#17

> There is little doubt that the system will be called Windows 11, but it may still not be so. For some reason my gut says it won't be called Windows 11. I have a feeling it will be called something confusing or unappealing. Love MS products but they always fell short with branding.

Are we past the naming phase for Windows X or Windows One?

It’ll be Windows 364 or something. I’d say 365 but it spend a day a year at the update screen.

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

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post #15
post #7

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...

Microsoft marketing is totally schizophrenic. Never believe a fucking word of it for a second and your life will be good.

Most marketing is.

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

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post #6

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 dre…

I think it rather had to do with microsoft selling compute time rather than licenses with Azure, and stop caring that people run their workload on windows or linux, as long as they run them in azure.

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

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That's funny, they think they'll stop supporting Windows 10 in 4 years, when 16% of Windows computers still run Windows 7. In 2025 I bet there will still be almost 10% of all Windows computers running Windows 7

It'll be XP all over again.
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