This whole situation is so what I expect from Microsoft, they simply do not care about end users and just expect them to roll over and do what they want. Just another nail in their coffin as far as I am concerned. To deny even security patches is plain crass stupidity and just what the hackers want, after all the error exploited by hackers are down to Microsoft in the first place, I could just about accept functional updates not being provided as it might just be possible that they might not work if using any new processor function.
Stuart