Thread: Windows 10 - free upgrade to those with PC using Windows 7 or 8
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Old 01-18-2016, 03:12 PM   #2180
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
You don't get support from Microsoft, as in they don't help you if you call them, or they don't provide any Windows Updates anymore? I haven't gotten that clear. I wouldn't mind the first, but would think the second would be very bothersome. Many companies will be buying new computers, but will still run Windows 7 on them until 2020, if only to keep their entire company on the same OS.
They'll have until July, 2017 (18 months) to upgrade to Windows 10 on any machine using a "Skylake" CPU. The upcoming, newest CPUs from Intel, AMD and Qualcomm won't even have the 18 month option. This is not about call-in support, this is normal OS update support. (Support that will continue for pre-Skylake CPUs until 2020 on Win 7 and 2023 on Win 8.1.)
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