Active discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329914" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329914</a>
I was curious how Windows 8 could already have reached the end of its support lifecycle. Turns out Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 are no longer supported but Windows 8.1 Update still is. Great naming scheme...
The article says<p>« Microsoft no longer supplies security patches for those versions of Windows.
The software giant today made an exception to that policy »<p>From what
<a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer-guidance-for-wannacrypt-attacks/" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer...</a> describes, I think it would be more accurate to say<p>« Microsoft now supplies security patches for those versions of Windows only to people who pay for custom support. The software giant today made an exception to that policy »<p>(which would explain why it didn't take them long to come up with a patch).