No more security updates on Windows 8: It’s time to upgrade
Windows 8 will not receive other security updates after January 12, with computers that use it will remain vulnerable to new threats not yet known.
As of January 12, Windows 8 will no longer receive any security update. The operating system was born about three years ago, not too much if we consider the life cycle of the Microsoft software, but users will have to upgrade to Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 to receive the necessary official updates of the operating system. Windows 8 becomes an exception for Microsoft, which has good reasons to eliminate support for the interim version.
Typically, Microsoft offers 10 years of guaranteed security updates on their platforms from official debut, which in the case of Windows 8 will become 3. The reason is quite simple: Microsoft Windows 8.1 considers a simple service-pack and not a new major release despite integrates many new features on the level of integrated features. On outdated versions last service-pack. Microsoft Fleet provides security updates for only two years.
Constantly update both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 would probably have caused a slowdown in the release of the updates, even considering that the latest version of the two does not add any major problems of compatibility. Moreover, for this reason it does not make sense, not to upgrade to Windows 8.1, and there are even fewer reasons for not proceeding with the update to Windows 10, which is still free for a few months for all users of Windows 7 and 8.1.
According to the latest known data (NetMarketShare or StatCounter), Windows 8 has about 3% of the market shares of desktop and laptop computers, a figure that translates into about 30 or 40 million systems worldwide. If you use one of these 30 or 40 million systems, it is time to update, unless you want to use a dangerously subject to external threats that can easily put in danger the security of data and documents stored.
