We stopped redeploying anything older than 8th gen about a year ago with the intention of making the remaining set near W10 EOL pretty small.
The far bigger lift this year is end of support for Win2012/2012R2. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Thane K. Sherrington Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2023 6:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] October 25, 2025 I strongly suspect the date will be pushed back a few years, as happened with XP and Windows 7. MS has always been sensitive to the market place with upgrades. T On 30-Apr-2023 5:13 p.m., _ Winterlight wrote: > I am curious what others think about the October 25, 2025 end of life for > Windows 10. The usual process is to update to Windows 11 however, in the > vast majority of cases that won't be possible. Without the special chip on > board you can't run windows 11 so I guess they expect you to throw you old > laptop or desktop away and get a new one. I have a number of laptops and a > couple of desktops that all are used for different jobs so I guess in 2 and a > half years I will have to throw them away start over even if they are running > perfectly fine. If we spiral down into a recession I find it hard to believe > that corporations and even government ancencies will be happy about filling > recycle centers with obsolete computers at a scale we have never seen before > > What does the collective think about this? > > <w>
