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		butokai on May 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Support for Windows 10 will end October 2025 Even though it was supposed to be "the last version of Windows". Is there an official reason for the change in strategy?

yjftsjthsd-h on May 23, 2024 | [–]

Wild speculation: Version envy. For a while, it looked like Windows and macOS were both going to stick to version 10. Then, after twenty years of macOS being 10.x, they announced a version 11, and one year later Windows followed suit.

anemoiac on May 23, 2024 | [–]

Money?

Kinrany on May 23, 2024 | [–]

This is not an explanation, money was the reason before too.

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