Most companies outline what constitutes as support for organizations, especially ones like schools that have signed contracts with them for their offerings. I

Most companies outline what constitutes as support for organizations, especially ones like schools that have signed contracts with them for their offerings. I know that consumers don't usually care about support for windows, as they just use random advice online to fix things, but technically if you were to talk to Microsoft for help and you are out of support, they will refuse to help you. Just like if you were to try to ask Apple for support on getting iOS 16 on your iPhone 5. Unrelated, but windows update does use a supported device list, and they use it regularly for a variety of reasons one of them being to note when to release an update for users on X hardware. As they have multiple times for AMD processors. They also use it to prevent you from updating to a newer version of windows, and therefore ending your support window. Microsoft published lifecycle dates regularly so you can go check that out and see when you officially aren't supported anymore.