FWIW, I wouldn't worry so much as others here about "obsolete" or about "Windows out of support". Over 10 years, both of those are likely, but on the whole, so what?

There are still industrial PCs based on Intel Core and AMD Ryzen CPUs and chipsets and the companies buying those boards will not be too worried about the above. As a for instance, A client I work with has only in the last 4 or 5 years stopped using Windows 3.11. Admittedly the "embedded" version.

Just because a Windows version goes "out of support" it definitely doesn't mean that it will stop working. I'm of the opinion that Microsoft actually sometimes do release some security fixes after the official support ends, though much less often.

I still have an old laptop with Win2k; Until recently I used to also have Win7, Win8.1 and Win10 machines because I used them all to verify that software I'd written for hardware I've designed still works as it should.

Where things can now get tricky is with the recent CPU vs Windows constraints (TPM 2.0). Where changing CPU relative to Windows version has caused issues. I like to think that should be going away as TPM 2.0 appears on all motherboards, but that's only my opinion.

If you buy a PC which comes with a Windows version, the two will work together for the foreseeable future. Few application providers will not support current CPUs for quite a few years yet, but there's always a risk of some new game-changer coming along, as did 64-bit or VST3, but usually things actually don't change as fast as we often think. Marketing is hype-driven. They want to panic people into buying new earlier than they need. I don't blame them for that, but neither will I be suckered by it.

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