Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support

And they believed that! Haha Buncha suckers. - Some MS execs, probably.

That was just one dev saying something off the cuff, and the media ran with it. It was never an official stance, or even said by anyone with the actual authority to make decisions like that.

It would be like you saying “tomorrow our company is shutting down” to a reporter about your work.