Microsoft has decided to change the support options for customers who want to run the latest Intel "Skylake" processors on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, following the changes that the company had announced in January. Microsoft said that in order to help provide greater flexibility for those who have longer deployment timeframes to Windows 10, the support period for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 devices on Skylake systems will be extended by one year: from July 17, 2017 to July 17, 2018.
Also, Microsoft says that after July 2018, all critical Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 security updates will be addressed for Skylake systems until extended support ends for Windows 7, January 14, 2020 and Windows 8.1 on January 10, 2023.

These are good changes to what Microsoft set up in January, when the company outlined a plan to provide specialized support for business customers who wanted to buy a PC powered by Intel’s latest Skylake processor, but who also wished to stick with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.

Microsoft has been encouraging customers to move to Windows 10, but PC gamers obviously complained.

Jeremy Korst, the general manager of Windows marketing, said the company has "received feedback" on how it had handled the previous rollout.

The original plan just didn't make sense. While Microsoft's support for Skylake systems would originally end in 2017, support for Windows 7 on Broadwell systems would be longer, until 2020.