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So in 12 years time when Windows 10 is as old as Windows XP we'll be back to the same security nightmare that Windows 10 was supposed to put an end to?

That's a bit disingenuous of Microsoft - they've been parading the 'as-a-service' model as a security feature so that users get constant patches.

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Do you think Microsoft is obligated to support all hardware for all time?

A line needs to be drawn somewhere.

It does indeed. But remember one of the big sells Microsoft made was that with Windows 10 you would get continual security patches. Microsoft dug that hole for themselves.

And to add, a machine released in 2015 (less than 3 years ago!) that no longer gets security updates is hardly the right place to be drawing the line you speak of.

Many of the 32GB Bay Trail Windows 8 tablets that were upgraded to Windows 10 for free were unable to install Windows 10 Anniversary edition. For these devices you had to do a completely fresh install to get from Windows 10 to Windows 10 Anniversary Edition.

Conceivably you've cut your support from 10 years to 2 by upgrading to Windows 10.

No. But manufacturers ought to warn their customers that they don't intend to support their hardware for longer that some period of time so that people can at least buy their crap based on an informed decision. It used to be that you could run Windows until it EOL'd giving you a good couple of years, now with point releases you are only guaranteed to run it until it reaches EOL of that point release.

How is this Microsoft's fault? If drivers are getting no updates, how should the OS help?

Presumably they could distribute the old drivers but update the rest of the system.

Or they could require that all the kernel-mode source code is public.

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