For the last several years windows has been pushing updates
for windows 10 to all system, but as time goes by Microsoft has been capping
updates for older hardware.
Systems using Intel's
Clover Trail atom CPUs and are running
windows 10 will no longer receive both
creature update and major update. They will only receive security update till January
2023.
Most systems using these cpu’s were shipped with either windows 8 or 8.1and
were also set to receive updates till 2023. The same systems were also eligible
to get a free update to windows 10.
For one to receive these security updates you have to periodically
keep up with the operating system update
of which are supported for 18 months then if you haven’t upgraded you no longer
get the security fixes.
This is a problem for the Clover Trail machines, because
those systems are prevented from installing and using the Windows 10 Creators
Update, leaving them stuck on last year's Anniversary Update. Support,
including security fixes, for the Anniversary Update is due to end in early
2018.
As such, it appeared that upgrading from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 has
taken Clover Trail systems from being supported until 2023 to being supported
until 2018, a five-year regression.
The bad news is that windows is not going back on this
decision. The ball now lies on imagination who are apparently the makes of the
GPU which needs to update it and intel on the other hand is unable to carry
out the drivers update.
This is not new in the windows world as they the production of
hew notebooks, pcs and the likes its nearly impossible to carry a downgrade
process from windows 10 ue to the same driver issues.
Its now time especially for cooprate think of upgrading
their systems before such catches up with them. Since most of them run as old
as win XP.