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Microsoft To Stop Offering Support For Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Old Surface Devices in Forums (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft has announced that starting next month it will no longer be participating in the technical support forums for Windows 7, 8.1, 8.1 RT and numerous other products. On the software front, the company says that it will also no longer provide support for Microsoft Security Essentials, Internet Explorer 10, Office 2010 and 2013 as of July. It is not just software that is affected. Microsoft is also stopping support for Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2, Surface RT, Surface 2, Microsoft Band and Zune. Some forums will be locked, preventing users from helping each other as well.
Surface RT - 2012
Surface Pro - 2013
Surface Pro 2 - 2013
Surface 2 - 2013
How does this compare to apple? I think macOS High Sierra runs on laptops from 2009 onwards?
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
Windows 10 is a 100% phone/tablet interface. You can easily verify that yourself: they did away with the right mouse button.
I noticed it the first time with my 3G WWAN: before, Windows 7, I could right-click on it and "connect": immediately online. Afterwards with Windows 7 I had to doubleclick and then connect through dialogs. Much more clunky, takes longer, very much phone like.
The whole "settings" abomination works the same way. All the menus are made phone compatible.
Correction: not a 100% phone interface. They are apparently incapable of actually fully replacing the old control panel what the "settings" crap is supposed to do.
So yes, I have "tested" Windows 10 and running it. I'm not sure if you are however.