Licencing issues aside, I don't think MS would do it just because they want to see old windows versions dead. They don't even care about W8.1 (e.g. lack of dx12

Licencing issues aside, I don't think MS would do it just because they want to see old windows versions dead. They don't even care about W8.1 (e.g. lack of dx12) even though it's still supported.