What happens to all the Windows 10 devices that are incompatible with Windows 11 in 2025?

[Kent Sharkey]

GHacks[^]:

Most Windows 10 devices that do not meet the minimum system requirements will stay on that version of Windows, but what happens when Windows 10 runs out of support in 2025?

I'm going to guess, "nothing"?

I'm sure there are more than a few XP and Vista machines still running (more-or-less) happily.

[Sander Rossel]

I remember a speech by Satya Nadella, around when Windows 10 came out, speaking about "Windows as a Service". Pretty bad service if you ask me :sigh:

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[realJSOP]

I'm still running a Win7 VM on Linux...

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[Daniel Pfeffer]

I'm still running an NT 4.0 VM on Windows 10 (connected to the outside world only via shared folders on the host, of course). I use it to run some very old software that can convert from obsolete Hebrew word processors to Word 6 format. Once I have the document in Word 6 format, converting it to docx is trivial. (Yes, I still have occasional need for such things. It's been a life-saver for some of my father's old documents.)

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