> I have yet to encounter any arguments in favor of sticking with Windows 8.1 vs. 10 I would assume the same people who liked 7 better than 10 and wanted to st

> I have yet to encounter any arguments in favor of sticking with Windows 8.1 vs. 10 I would assume the same people who liked 7 better than 10 and wanted to stick with it, and for the same reasons. For users Win 8.1 was basically a better 7, even though it didn't have any chance from recovering from the (deserved) critics against 8, namely "why did you put tablet minded stuff like that tile screen on my desktop OS, and where is the start menu". 8.1 fixed those issues, and was really "win 7, only better. > Isn't it pretty much universally regarded as a dud release? Yes and no, 8 overall is regarded as a dud, mostly because of the "here's the new windows 8, oh wait no we didn't mean it here is the real one named 8.1". > It seems like the smarter move here would be to kill the LTS for 8 than devote a bunch of effort to supporting their most popular product on their least popular platform. For a company that makes the majority of their money from b2b I wouldn't call "kill the LTS of a major version of your major product after you sold it" a smart move.