Windows 8 goes to another support cycle: it will only receive security updates coming to an end in 2023

Time passes for everyone and everything. And in the world of electronics and technology this maxim is even more accentuated Time is the same, the hands of the clock and the pages of the calendar pass to the same pace, and yet it gives us the impression that it runs much faster.

It seems like yesterday we saw Windows 8 arrive, Microsoft's first attempt to adapt to touch screens after a solvent system and of remarkable performance, how was Windows 7. We are not going to discuss whether Windows 8 was better or worse, its successes and its failures.What interests us here is that a few hours ago Windows 8 has been dropped from mainstream support by Microsoft.

A Windows 8 that is still present on 6% of computers and that already sees the date for the release marked on the calendar end of support. There is still time left, as it will be January 10, 2023, but we can already see how quickly time flies.

Windows 8, a failed attempt?

Windows 8 was a system that did not have all the support from users that they expected from Microsoft. In fact, we already see that it is present in only 6% of the teams. It can be thought that it is a figure according to its time in the market, something that falls apart if we see that Windows 7, even more outdated, is present in 60% of the computers.

The loss of this support means that from Redmond they are not forced to release more updates beyond those that correspond to security patchesthat have to be released promptly.In this way, it enters the group of operating systems that are already in the second cycle of their life in which security patches are offered but no longer receive maintenance updates. It is extended support.

Windows 8 arrived on October 26, 2012 and sees the end of mainstream support three years after Windows 7 did. Windows 8 was an attempt to adapt the operating system to touch screens and incidentally introduced interesting contributions: it is enough to recall a first concept of what later became the universal applications that came with Windows 10.

To correct the errors of Windows 8 we saw Windows 8.1 arrive, a free update that sought to correct all the errors that Windows 8 had. An update that however arrived later than would have been necessary.

This makes it interesting for users who still have Windows 8 (or Windows 8.1) Updating to Windows 10 to have full support in which constant security and maintenance patches are received, something fundamental (we already see it) in the computing today.

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