Microsoft stops support Windows 8. It's time to update!
Vindovs / / December 19, 2019
How quickly time flies! It seems that not so long ago we were arguing heatedly about the prospects of the newly published "Eight", and now the operating system Microsoft has already written off the scrap. What does this mean and what do users of this version of Windows, you will learn in this article.
Windows 8 was released in October 2012. It was truly an innovative operating system in which Microsoft first rolled out new tile interface Metro, Windows Store application store, the new task manager, and many other interesting functions. However, despite these innovations, Windows 8 has received not too benevolent assessment of users. Therefore, developers had to quickly release Windows 8.1, in which many of the shortcomings have been corrected "Eight".
To update to Windows 8.1 were allocated the standard 24 months. In theory, this term was to expire in October 2015, however, Microsoft has decided to extend it a little bit and moved to 12 January 2016.
For Windows 8.1 operating the same policy terms of support, and Windows 8. Its main support phase ends January 9, 2018, as extended - January 10, 2023-th. In order to retain the support, Windows 8 users are given 2 years, until 12 January 2016, to move to the Windows 8.1 version once it becomes publicly available.
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This means that those users of Windows 8, which still have not switched to Windows 8.1, will soon be deprived of this opportunity. It also would deprive them of the possibility of the installation of Windows 10 and future versions of Microsoft's operating system. Thus, they will have no choice but to live out their lives with Windows 8, which is also two years later (01.09.2018) will be deprived of basic support.
To date, the number of active copies of Windows 8 has from 30 to 40 million units. This is not such a small number. Therefore, if you or someone you know is installed "eight", try to find time to update, so as not to remain forever on the sidelines of progress.
For more information about how to install Windows 8.1 can be found at this page.