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Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck me harder, Daddy Microsoft.

[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

In a way, isn't this just saying windows 11 is not ready as a replacement? Because fuck me my work laptop drives me nutty, IT hasn't locked down all the popups and I can't fix it withut IT..

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

"Please you monsters, just pay, our children are getting older, and it's time they moved out and bought their OWN islands off Seattle!"

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I expected them to charge more, to be honest.

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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Counteroffer - spend that $30 on a drink and turn them down. Just keep on using windows 10 and clog up their support tickets ^_^

[–] dan@upvote.au 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Extended updates always cost money, and this is pretty cheap relative to extended support for previous versions of Windows. I don't understand why it's newsworthy?

Windows 10 is nearly ten years old.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

This is like people complaining about how Ubuntu 16.04 LTS support ended not long ago (2021-04-29)

Or macOS 10.9 Mavericks (2016-12-01)

Or Android 6.0 (2018-08-01)

Or Debian 8 "Jessie" (2018-06-17)

Or Linux Mint 17 (2019-07-01)

Or Fedora 23 (2016-12-20)

Or Slackware 14.1 (2024-01-01)

Of all of these, not even Slackware comes close to how long Microsoft has supported Windows 10 post release (2015)

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Windows XP. 2001–2019. If 10 beats that I'll be impressed

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

The herd keeps me secure

[–] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Please just force me to upgrade to Windows 11 already. I'd love to, but my hardware doesn't satisfy some arbitrary requirements they set for Windows 11.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought that too, with the TPM thing

Turns out it's just turned off by default on a lot of mobos. You just go into bios and enable it

Then use a program called Rufus to make a bootable flash drive but without all the shite and spyware, and just upgrade W10 to 11 in minutes

Honestly I put it off for ages because of everyone saying how bad it was, turns out they just don't know how to customise it to their liking

Probably spending too much time trying to get their printer to work on Linux lol

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[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

I bet they would be willing to do it right while you are in the middle of something important if you paid them an extra $30 on top of that.

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