Betanews reports on an announcement from Microsoft regarding its Windows 10 operating system:
[...] come May 9 it will stop updating the original release, known as 1507. The software giant had intended to stop supporting that release on March 26, but pushed back the deadline.
additional coverage:
Computerworld
related story:
Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada
(Score: 3, Informative) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday April 17 2017, @01:37AM (2 children)
Sounds a lot like sytemd [freedesktop.org], actually.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Monday April 17 2017, @03:45AM
Snort...
systemd is clear-air transparent compared to windows 10.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Zyx Abacab on Monday April 17 2017, @04:26AM
Unlike Windows, Linux gives you choice: you can replace systemd with OpenRC or Minit, or just stick with SysVinit.
Heck, I'd like to see any swapping-out of low-level system components with Windows. That'd really be something.