You might not be thinking about it right now, but if you're a recent owner (or to-be purchaser) of one of Microsoft's new Surface RT tablets with Windows RT baked in, there will come a day when Microsoft will no longer officially support your device.
If you're a previous iPad owner, or know someone who is, this day tends to come sooner than one might expect. For example, Apple's first iPad – released in 2010 – doesn't qualify for iOS 6 and will surely be left out of any future iOS updates to come, all of two years or so after the tablet first hit store shelves.
As for Microsoft's Surface RT tablet, the company plans to extend a (relatively generous) support cycle of no less than four years for the consumer device.
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