Microsoft Gives Windows 8 Users Two Years to Install Windows 8.1

[tapoo]

Windows 8.1 will be launched on Friday, so Microsoft hopes that most, if not all Windows 8 users, will make the move to its new platform.

The company announced on the official support page that Windows 8 users have only two years to deploy Windows 8.1 in order to remain under the same lifecycle policy announced at launch. This means that in case you won’t be deploying Windows 8.1, your Windows 8 version will go dark on October 18, 2015.

“Windows 8 customers will have two years to move to Windows 8.1 after the General Availability of the Windows 8.1 update to continue to remain supported under the Windows 8 lifecycle,” Microsoft said in the official Windows 8.1 Support Lifecycle Policy page.

Support for users who decide to make the move to Windows 8.1 will continue to be offered until January 10, 2023, Redmond also revealed.

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[illumination]

So if you have windows 8 and do not want to make the transition, your just pretty much out of luck.. Not so sure that is cool, stripping the option away entirely..

Note: I plan on making the upgrade myself, but there may be those that do not wish to have the newest features "always is"...

 

[Deleted member 178]

those that avoid the updates are mostly "cracked version" beginner users, by beginner i mean they dont know where to find the activator ^^

 

[illumination]

those that avoid the updates are mostly "cracked version" beginner users, by beginner i mean they dont know where to find the activator ^^

You out in left field again lol I meant there are some with "valid" windows 8 computers, that may not want those features, always a group of people that just get used to the way things are, and are not happy with changes...

 

[Gnosis]

Well hey, I am still on XP, so call me a crazy cracker and be done with it. I am content though.

On a serious note, if there are such scourges as to give legit purchasers of Windows 8 an ultimatum to upgrade that soon is pretty ridiculous, but then again, Windows 8 was not all "hunky-dory" in the first place.

Thank you to the gods of XP. Truly, thank you.