Raising this dead article as Microsoft now delivers extended support pricing details for those who choose not to migrate to the newer version of Windows. The one they were told they’d not ever have to migrate to
Raising this dead article as Microsoft now delivers extended support pricing details for those who choose not to migrate to the newer version of Windows. The one they were told they’d not ever have to migrate to
This whole thing is rather weird. Windows 10 had a set lifetime when it was launched (see this link for details) so the developer evangelist was just plain wrong. They should’ve issued a correction, but this one guy at a conference and that one tweet was enough to somehow convince everyone that no more versions of Windows would come out, even though that directly conflicted with the well-documented information available online.
As for migration: over the past years, you have migrated your Windows install several times. Every major update ( “Redstone”, “Creator update”) has been a major Windows upgrade akin to upgrading from Vista to 7. Microsoft made the process seemless enough that you don’t notice this, but you have already migrated several times (or you’re running an unsupported version of Windows anyway, unless you’re on some kind of weird IoT version).
Microsoft started dropping support lifecycles with Windows 11, which currently only has about one year of support left, officially. Will Windows 11 be the final version of Windows? Probably not.
Well, no, “Version 23H2” only has one year of support. The 24H2 update will likely happen and likely have support until 2026. They do not list a retirement date for “Windows 11”, only for the updates.
You are right that for 10, the formal documentation listed an EOL. I can also believe that the “last version” was started by a misunderstanding. However, that “Windows 10 is the last version” spread hard and Microsoft made no effort to correct that at all. If there’s one thing internet sites love more than over-speculating about a potential mis-speak, it’s showing their fellow internet sites to be morons by posting Microsoft statements clarifying things. So Microsoft had to have noticed and still opted not to interject. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some “we are going to make Windows 10 a rolling release” sentiment bouncing around at Microsoft. It would be consistent with how they declared that new features and deprecations would come twice a year.