When Microsoft introduced Windows 10 and its “Windows as a Service” model, the company promised Windows users a steady stream of updates to their machines. The days of being stuck on an old version of Windows would be forgotten; once you were on Windows 10, you’d have access to the latest and greatest forever. But that support came with a small footnote: you’d only receive updates for the “supported lifetime of the device” that you were using Windows 10 on.
The old system of Windows development, with substantial paid upgrades every three years or so, had many problems.
