#Win10 end of life driver
#Win10 end of life upgrade
#Win10 end of life windows

If we ran out and bought Windows 11 compatible computers now, or closer to the deadline, makes no difference since we are satisfied with the performance and only being forced to make e-waste to satisfy the artificial Microsoft requirements (imposed to help Intel make their earnings). We don't have heavy performance demands - Office + Chrome covers like 95% - 99% of what we do. We need to replace over 90% of our hardware for the sole purpose of upgrading to Windows 11 when performance is not an issue running Office, Chrome and barely anything else on a i5 6th-gen + SSD.

#Win10 end of life upgrade

We will upgrade gradually, and probably a lot of it will be 2024-2025. Going without security patches enterprise-wide if Win12 has issues or is late.Painting into a corner of 'we now have 3 months to test Win11/Win12 and deploy it to the entire enterprise to be complaint with policy/legal/insurance.'.Making an enterprise-wide plan 4-5 years in advance to move to an unreleased OS only weeks or months after its release with minimal time for testing / piloting.I'm imagining a VR and or Touchscreen heavy OS that is like Win8, but slightly less terrible. no 32bit app support? Unlikely, but an eventuality sometime). It is likely to have its own drawbacks, and like Win11, could have new requirements or cutoffs (e.g. There is no garantee that Win12 will be good, much less better than an OS with 5 years of patches / polishing.We don't know exactly when Win12 will exist, whether it will exist before 10's EOL.My concerns with this plan, which I see a lot is: What about your enterprise? Are you upgrading them? That's aside from the spec-ex performance fixes too - so this would be performance drops *on top of* the mitigations performance penalty.

7th gen intel was the first to introduce MBEC in the CPU, and 8th gen worked out some of the first-implementation quirks/performance issues. It's all about performance with all the security features lit up.

#Win10 end of life driver

and Win10 basically was 'good enough' to have most of the family stop needing help every holiday LOL.Īnd for what it's worth, a primary driver for the CPU revision/level cut off is MBEC - below 7th gen you'll see an up to 30% performance impact for features that the security functionality has to emulate, and below 8th gen you'll see single digit performance drops, but 8th and up will see 0% performance drops - if it was specex stuff then you'd see the limit being 9th or higher type deal with the actual silicon fixes, etc. That, and the out of the box configuration of existing and new security features is a far higher protection level for consumers than we've ever seen before. Though for gaming, W11 does have some concrete core technology relevant to that that's light years ahead of Win10, but that's not going to be really evident to people for a while yet as games are designed to take advantage of the functionality. XP SP2 brought some new stuff with it, but in reality, the bigger visible stuff like firewall was just adding GUI and easier command line management tools to components that already existed in the system that could already be used if you really wanted to bash your skull out with a rock.

Especially some of the 'hardening for idiots' options that make it so even clicktel admins who can't understand CIS/STIG/etc can get a sane configuration out of the box. It's mostly cosmetic for the average user, but for the IT/security/management side, it's definitely far larger than that.

User facing stuff, maybe not so much, but otherwise, it is quite a big shift tech-stack wise. I'd argue otherwise - there's a lot of management, security, stability, and all sorts of glorious under the hood stuff that was done to 11.