Legit Windows 10 owners to get 10 years of support

This was revealed through Microsoft’s latest update to its Windows lifecyle fact sheet. The Windows lifecycle fact sheet lists down significant milestone dates for each version of Windows, such as release date, end of mainstream support, end of extended support, and end of sales for each version.

Bonus history lesson: Windows 10’s Universal Windows Platform Mail restores some features that will seem familiar to anyone who used Windows Live Mail in Windows 7. However, extended support runs until October 14, 2025, which means a full ten years’ worth of updates and security patches.

With the Windows 10 launch just a week away, Microsoft rolled out a new build Wednesday to Windows Insiders, the group that tests early versions of the software. Kleynhans is Gartner’s Microsoft specialist, and has been fully briefed on the company’s plans after pressing it for answers.

Windows 10 Mobile build 10166 was released to the fast track on July 10, so after having fixed the majority of the bugs and issues found in this version, Microsoft decided to make it available for all insiders.

The only caveat to this is that Microsoft won’t care much for the kind of hardware you’re using.

Microsoft suggests that once you’ve updated to the new build you go to the Store and grab the latest app updates, as there have been lots of improvements made to those in recent weeks.

“They’ll support [Windows 10] until the hardware physically can’t handle it”, Kleynhans said.

As with past operating systems, the original “mainstream” support is five years followed by “extended” support for five years after that.

If you choose to use a local account to log into Windows 10, which Microsoft does allow, you will then need to setup your email account in the Mail app which, as mentioned above, will also add that account to the Calendar app.