Back in January, Microsoft executive vice president Terry Myerson made some outlandish claims concerning Windows 10 “as a service,” bringing into question the life cycle of Microsoft’s next major OS release. Fortunately, our hesitations can be put to rest, as Microsoft released a fact sheet today confirming that, yes, “every Windows product has a life cycle.” Likened to the support model of previous Windows iterations, Windows 10 will receive “mainstream support” until 2020 with extended support concluding in 2025.
In the case of Windows, the mainstream support cycle most commonly refers to the period of time in which Microsoft plans to add crucial revisions to the OS. The extended support period, on the other hand, is limited to the issuance of security and reliability updates. For instance, Windows XP mainstream support came to an end in April 2009, though it didn’t cause much of a fuss until last spring when extended support was drawn to a close, putting the OS at risk for infinitely security transgressions.
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