Why isn't windows 10x coming to existing devices?

[Jamie Brahm]

This confuses me. It would surely lead to better uptake of the operating system, and give new life to existing devices, especially tablets as the OS is more touch and web app driven. Win-win.

Is there a driver incompatibility issue? Are they having stability issues? What reason do you think there is behind this move?

 

[N_LaRUE]

What existing devices are you referring to? Can you be a bit more specific? How old are these devices?

As for web apps, they're still not what they should be.

Thinking of the reasons, it could simply be simplicity. Start fresh instead of trying to work with the old.

The OS isn't legacy driven so that's possibly the other reason.

 

[ochhanz]

Might be firmware related, Oems are generally lazy in optimizing that. They should make it available for manual installing later on however (like you can download W10).

 

[Jamie Brahm]

What existing devices are you referring to? Can you be a bit more specific? How old are these devices?

As for web apps, they're still not what they should be.

Thinking of the reasons, it could simply be simplicity. Start fresh instead of trying to work with the old.

The OS isn't legacy driven so that's possibly the other reason.

I just mean recent tablets, 2 in 1's and laptops. Like the last surface for example.

Presumably they want to onboard developers to new PWA and UWP apps (or UWP api using scalable win32s), given this is the first real touch centric surface experience (and that fits with the one OS long term strategy). More users = more development.

There must be a technical limitation that requires them to limit to vetted devices.