Microsoft has backed off a possible confrontation with customers who had been told their two to four years 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 was the first feature upgrade of the year, and thired since the operating system's lunch. Those clover Trail powered devices were made and sold between 2012 and 2015 the latter the year windows 10 debuted and many if not most were eligtible for the free upgrade to 10 that Microsoft offered. But the company balked at serving those machines 1703, telling users in April that became Intel dobbed support for four models of the clover Trial SoC, the PCs "may be potential per...