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I still think it's useless. MS is effectively cutting Windows 7 support with around 3 years, and with 6 years for Windows 8.1, if you run them on a new system.
My DELL Precision, which is hugely expensive, is not in the list, and it was only released three months ago and CAME WITH WINDOWS 7 Professional by default. I can imagine people choosing this workstation-class laptop precisely because of this, expecting that they can use it until 2020, which is four years; about the normal time to write off a workstation in most companies.
Now Microsoft turns around and cheerfully tells you that all your plans go out the window, because they decided to drop support about three years early, and want you to move to an (effectively) rolling release operating system. In a few months, with the anniversary updates, there will be some significant changes again. How the frack can a company plan things if the operating system they're running changes every time you turn around?
One day I'll take a month off from work, convert everything to Linux (and sell the stuff with which it doesn't work) and use Windows as a gaming platform.
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