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Originally Posted by PatNY
The above is from this Microsoft web page written all the way back in January of this year. I am not aware of one instance where Microsoft has stated anything to the contrary since that time. |
Sorry Pat, but you just posted a a bunch of your own speculative, possibly ageda-driven, spin.
You conveniently overlooked several important points:
1. That page you link is a wiki page by a contributer from the MS Community forum, not an MS policy statement.
2. About your 5 to 10 year thing, you left out the introductory phrase: "This is still being debated, but the logical conclusion is...:
3. Even in what you posted, there is nothing that says those updates would be FREE for that long, only for the "supported lifetime," which was "still being debated" and is what the author of the article reported as being discussed on those internal MS slides.