Hi Ragnarok buddy,
Looks like this article you posted has a typo in it here:
Each release of the OS will be slated for 18 months of support, which is a shorter period than we're currently seeing. After all, the original version of Windows 10 (1507), will be dropped from support on May 9, almost 22 months after it was first released to Production.
As we all know, W10 initial RTM was
v1607 not v1507 as stated above. I wonder if anyone else caught that besides me??
Good information there.
As Cat states, there are going to be more important items that Microsoft needs to fix in Redstone, such as the Upgrade Assistant issue I talked about on the other W10 thread this morning. It's funny that I have a nearly identical Dell Optiplex 745, about the same age as yours (build date of 12/17/2007), a bit newer it will be 10 yrs. old this December. This failed to run the W10 CU Update with Ragnar's recommended Upgrade Assistant 5 times in a row. According to experts at Microsoft this is a problem with me! Bah-I don't think so!
I'm attempting the Clean Install on this one now; and I'll mention it's been upgraded from Vista-->W7-->W8.1-->W10 licensed on multiple occasions with no problem.
**UNTIL NOW!**. For Microsoft developers reading this thread, please take note of this complaint.
I have given them Credit that the first computer I attempted to run the W10 CU on over last weekend, my Dell Studio540 W10 Pro main desktop computer worked perfectly with the upgrade (build date of Aug. 2008; it will be 9 yrs. old this summer). This is a big improvement over earlier releases, as no version of W10 (including TP releases back to 9/2014) has ever run the Upgrade so quickly; about 2 hours, nor run the 1st time to completion without incident. However the failure of the slightly older Optiplex 745 on W10 to update with W10 Home just shows how difficult this update process can be whether on older hardware or newer hardware--I have another thread today where I talked about the failure of W10 AT upgrade to work on both.
You may know from reading the various W10 threads here about the fact that NO hardware tested has ever been able to achieve W10 installation that was built prior to 2006 due to 3 missing instructions in the CPU chips out there (Intel, AMD, Via). I have personally tested this as have many other Techs here on WF and 4 other forums I am on along with other Techs I know. Your Dell is right on that bubble, and it did manage to work. However, you had to do a Clean Install as I'm having to do right now on my Optiplex 745. We did have a couple of guys tell us here and on other forums they managed to do a W10 install a couple of years back on machines built in 2004. When asked for full HW specs and documentation including photos & videos-they never responded back indicating they were blowing smoke at us!! 2006 is guaranteed to be the cutoff year for older hardware. This has been well documented now on the Internet and I've written several articles about it.
Part of the takeaway here is that W10 Redstone or some future version will eventually transmogrify enough to stop working with computers that are now 12 years old or older. This is no big deal as the only computer brand that I see working for more than 10 years these days in the field is DELL--no other computers will last 12 years, so we are only talking about 1 computer maker even going to be affected by this. Computer makers have been designing desktop computers now to last only 5 years before they are obsolete (exception is Dell), and laptops for 2 years. They have discovered it's cheaper to make stuff that breaks sooner and causes the customer to pay big bucks to get it fixed (often exceeding the initial purchase cost of the computer!) or to replace it with a new one. I'm sure everyone here who is an experienced Tech will accede to this. They have been going in this direction for 15 years, even before the first American computer company jumped ship and moved all their factories to China (HP) in 2005 or so.
Personally, I'd like to see them get the W10 update working on a much higher percentage of machines, say 95% of computers instead of the 10% or so they have been able to do. Many of my Customers are so tired of this they could jump off a bridge! It's simply way too complex for them to understand or comprehend. This is especially true of seniors born prior to 1946 (pre-boomers) who grew up in an age where computers didn't exist and so they don't understand them nor trust them. They would rather just go buy a new computer and not fight with all this update crap!
The pre-boomer who grew up in the depression however, are oft to do this, as they were taught to not throw a thing away just because it's old. So, many come to me to upgrade them. I still get requests to do XP upgrades, which I now refuse to do since last year (2016) since it's such a high-risk to turn these folks loose on the Internet with computers that have gaping security holes and no support on them.
Other features such as 3d imaging and fancy Gaming features to integrate with game consoles or other online gaming functions are of little interest to me compared to how easy or difficult it is for customers to get W10 onto their computers in the first place or to maintain them once they have them *the update crash debacle*.
Just some things to think about.
Best,
BBJ