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Original Windows 10 Version to Receive Support until 9 May

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday April 16 2017, @08:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-on-the-upgrade-treadmill dept.

butthurt writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday April 17 2017, @03:36AM

    by frojack (1554) on Monday April 17 2017, @03:36AM (#495084) Journal

    All 18 remaining users of Vista will be completely disappointed.

    Of course any machine capable or running Vista will run any random linux version so much better.

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