Historically, windows os has about a 10 year support from launch.
Basically you can search windows ## end of life and you get something like this.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-vista
Search end of life and windows xp, vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10... They are all about 10 years.
Since windows 11 was launched in 2021, expect end of life in 2031. You are NOT going to find any official information on windows 11 end of life because Microsoft hasn't decided on that yet. Expect 10 years of support. If Microsoft screws up windows 14 development some time in 2029, then you may get an extra 2 years.
Answer from JosephT71 on learn.microsoft.comWindows 11 EOL | Overclockers Forums
How long Windows 11 will be supported?
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Eleven is not a good choice of number. I mean twelve is good, a nice dozen, midnight. Eleven is just something approaching twelve.
Most people want Windows to resemble, er, Windows. XP was well loved Vista tried to be different so they brought in Windows 7. Windows 8 . . . yes well . . . so they brought in Windows 10.
There is no compelling hardware change to warrant a new OS. XP was primarily 32 bit and didn’t support sata drives, windows 7 no efi gpt support for main internal hard disk . . .
Apart from not looking like traditional windows the file manager aspect is awkward to use.
There are latency issues ie it can be slow in operation.
There is gross attempt to inflict hardware limitations - hey it’s the owners pc not microsoft’s.
Surely this will be put out of its misery and replaced by Windows 12? Can’t see them going back to 10 and just leaving it alone unfortunately.
After reading “How to get Windows 11” I got the question about Windows 11’s life cycle. In theory it will be supported for about 10 years but the date of EOL is a different story.
I have 4 variations of Windows 11’s EOL date:
Like Windows 7 (December 28th, 2031),
Like Windows 8.1 (October 6th, 2031),
Like Windows 10 (December 22nd, 2031),
Til the end of 2031 (December 31st, 2031).
What do you think about it? Should I add and correct date variations?
Nobody is compelling anyone to retire their old hardware. You're incorrect if you assume Microsoft is simply implying that.
This is about an internal issue with the processor architecture for pre 8th gen processors... (like yours)
In 2018 most CPUs were affected by a serious design flaw that enabled the Specter and Meltdown side-channel attacks. Microsoft had to release patches for Windows that slowed down PCs with these older CPUs. This let Windows work around the security problems in these older CPUs.
CPU manufacturers would have to rearchitect their older CPU designs to truly patch these security weaknesses. (and you know they won't update old processors)
Intel stated that Spectre and Meltdown were both addressed with hardware level changes starting with Intel 8th-generation CPUs.
Isn’t it interesting that Windows 11 requires 8th-generation CPUs or newer? I would guess this is totally related. Of course, Microsoft isn’t screaming from the rooftops that PCs with older CPUs are fundamentally insecure at a hardware level compared to the new devices. That wouldn’t be good for business would it? But it seems like Microsoft wants to quietly move everyone to new hardware so Microsoft knows it only has to support Windows 11 on CPUs with these major security fixes.
it's about keeping you safe on the network nothing more...
Hope that helps...
You have that right; you can change to Apple.
I have an old Apple Macintosh OS9 stored away. It still works but is terribly slow. Why don't you check and see how many new OS's Apple has created since OS9?
List of Apple operating systems - Wikipedia
While using the old Macintosh I went from OS 7.5, OS8 and OS9. It has OS9 on it but did not meet the system requirements for OS10.
Technology keeps changing so you must keep up with it or not have the best devices and security.
Since Microsoft is soon going to end support for Windows 10, would that mean would also in a way, be ending support for Windows 11 because Windows 11 is in a way, a redesigned Windows 10 update because they are both Windows 10.0?