Windows 10 support ending

[Jazzy]

Windows 10 running out of road for support is going to be something of an environmental disaster in terms of old PCs going into landfills, an analyst firm has warned.

Canalys wrote an article on the state of the PC market and Windows 10’s end-of-support date, which rolls around in October 2025 – still some way off, of course, but getting closer all the time.

The core issue here is not just support coming to an end for Windows 10 in just under two years, but that the hardware requirements for Windows 11 – ruling out PCs with older CPUs, and machines that lack Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 security functionality – mean that those computers likely won’t be recycled either.

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Anyone still using Windows 10?

 

[Lamb]

Then they'll claim climate change cause this.

 

[tango]

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Anyone still using Windows 10?

Still using Windows 10 on one computer and Windows 7 on another. Those are computers in regular use, I didn't count my old laptop that runs Windows XP because I couldn't tell you the last time I actually used it.

There's no reason people need to dump their PC just because Microscoff decides not to support something any more. What's more of a nuisance is when third party software stops supporting the older versions. The only reason I migrated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 was because the newer versions of my software development platform stopped supporting Windows 7. So the chances are if/when I move to Windows 11 it will be because something else that I use requires it, I really couldn't care less what Microsoft wants me to do.