Windows 10 support

Hi Steinberg.

As Ram prices have gone through the roof due to AI developers buying most of it, thus making upgrading to Windows 11 on a new Pc unattainable for many users!

How much longer are you going to support Windows 10. :crossed_fingers::+1::smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Kind regards

Mike001

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Usually Steinberg stops supporting an operating system when the vendor stops supporting it. So while C15 is supported with Win10, I am assuming that C16 probably won’t be (doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t run, just that there is that they don’t test and support it)

If by “you”, you mean Steinberg, then we (users) can’t answer that. The question is more, how much longer can anyone expect support on Windows 10 for anything, once Microsoft end their support?

FWIW, I keep a Windows 10 laptop alive for backwards compatibility reasons I was lucky enough to have replaced a perfectly capable Skylake-era Xeon system (now running Linux) with a new Windows 11 rig last summer, for less than the RAM and GPU would cost me now.

Spoiler alert: everything still works fine on Windows 10, you will just not have any new features that Microsoft introduces, such as the upcoming new MIDI stack. Also note that, if you’re in the EU/EEA. you can still keep getting security updates for Windows 10 until October 2026.