Microsoft Cuts Support For Windows 8: What This Means For You

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Link: Microsoft Cuts Support For Windows 8: What This Means For You : PERSONAL TECH : Tech Times

 

...Among all the existing Microsoft Windows versions in service around the world since 2013 – Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 – Windows 8 never broke into the 10th percentile of global market share.

 

That's why Windows 7, even though it's a much older operating system, is still being supported by Microsoft. Windows 7 just proved to be more popular with users, as it still stands as the most used version of Windows by a very large margin.

 

Nonetheless, the 3 percent of people whose PC's are powered by Windows 8 still amounts to about 48 million users who are left with quite a security predicament. They can either update to Windows 8.1 (Microsoft will push Windows 10 on us) or risk getting hacked because of an outdated security patch...