If you’re still running Windows 8.1, be advised: Microsoft shut down mainstream support a week ago. But there’s still a last-ditch upgrade path: Microsoft’s assistive technology loophole, which closes in 24 hours. Again.
Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 8.1 on January 9, five years after the operating system’s debut. Essentially, it’s dead; for the average consumer, Windows 8.1 will remain forever unchanged, with no new features or bug fixes. Instead, Microsoft has migrated the OS to “extended support,” which will only provide security updates for another five years, until 2023.
In Microsoft’s world, consumers would have already migrated to Windows 10, a modern OS with big fixes, patches, and period updates. And while the company gave users a one-year windows to freely upgrade to Windows 10, NetMarketshare shows that there’s about 7 percent of users who refused or simply forgot to do by the July 2016 deadline. Well, you have one last (?) opportunity to do so.
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