{"id":78853,"date":"2015-07-22T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T04:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=78853"},"modified":"2015-07-22T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T08:54:56","slug":"microsoft-intends-windows-10-to-last-until-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/78853-microsoft-intends-windows-10-to-last-until-2025","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft intends Windows 10 to last until 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having let users know what to expect come Windows 10’s release<\/a>, its system requirements, upgrade times and who gets what edition, Microsoft has also announced, sort of, that they expect Windows 10 to last 10 years, until 2025 to be precise.<\/p>\n

Simply navigating to the ‘Windows lifecycle fact sheet<\/a>‘ will show that Microsoft intends to continue mainstream support for Windows 10 until October 13, 2020<\/strong>. Following that, extended support will end on October 14th, 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Windows 10’s new and improved desktop. Image courtesy of techradar<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Just to clarify, mainstream support for a Windows OS refers to the enhancement of the product through the release of new features, design changes or performance upgrades. Once mainstream support ends, if it’s non-security related, it ain’t happening.<\/p>\n

Just by the way, the end of mainstream support also, usually, means the end of warrantees. That ends on October 13, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Extended support, on the other hand, includes security updates as well as hotfixes and general reliability patches. Once that’s over, come October 14th, 2025<\/strong>, you’re on your own.<\/p>\n

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The reintroduction of the start menu. Image courtesy of techradar<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Keep in mind that these updates will be unavoidable. Windows 10’s updates, whether during mainstream or extended support, are non-negotiable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What this also means is that “Windows as a service” does not mean Windows 10 is the final OS as we know it today, as many had thought, and something will eventually take Windows 10’s place, but not for a while.<\/p>\n

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Task View is Windows 10’s Alt+Tab mechanic. Image courtesy of techradar<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Until then, we can look forward to Microsoft’s refocus on gaming, starting off with games like Gears of War: Ultimate Edition<\/a><\/em> and Minecraft: Windows Edition<\/a><\/em>; then there’s the supposedly miraculous, new API DirectX 12 that’s so good that AMD is abandoning Mantle<\/a>; and of course everything that runs on Windows is about to be interconnected.<\/p>\n

Also, if you own an Xbox One, Windows 10 is about to change the game<\/a>, and all without breaking games we’re currently playing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s a fairly decent summary, don’t you agree? We think so.<\/p>\n

Oh, oh, and Windows 10 will be shipped on and installable via a flash drive<\/a>. We almost forgot.<\/p>\n

Source: KitGuru<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Win the 2015 Dota 2 The International and earn more than a Wimbledon Champion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

10 years is fairly long for any OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":78855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4388,14869,14867,91,1969,13906,15397,13009],"class_list":["post-78853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-4388","tag-life-span","tag-life-time","tag-microsoft","tag-news-2","tag-os","tag-pc","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}