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:
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday April 17 2017, @04:36AM
Hah. Yes, interesting to see if that still works. An old DOS trick was to make a directory with a particular name to prevent a file with the same name from being created. So for instance if you wanted Netscape Navigator to do session cookies but Netscape hadn't yet heard of session cookies, you could just go find cookies.txt, delete it, then make a directory named cookies.txt there. (On *nix you linked cookies.txt -> /dev/null instead but with DOS you had to be more creative sometimes.)
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