Microsoft has backed off a possible confrontation with customers who had been told their two-to-four-year-old PCs were unfit for Windows 10, a sign, said one analyst, that the company remains unsure of its support strategy for the OS.

Earlier this year, Microsoft blocked a class of low-end personal computers – those equipped with Intel’s Atom system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors, dubbed “Clover Trail,” part of the “Cloverview” architecture – from receiving the Windows 10 Creators Update. Also known as 1703 in Microsoft’s year/month parlance, Creators was the first feature upgrade of the year, and the third since the operating system’s launch.

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