No lie. We play this game every 7 years or so. I was training on a Win10 machine at work yesterday. Think they’re updating that? Nah. Hell, it probably could take an 11 upgrade and they haven’t bothered. Why? It’s a locked down machine. And if IT don’t care, home users certainly won’t.
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Spacehooks@reddthat.com 18 hours agoSadly people said the same for xp and 7 soo…
shalafi@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
They’re working to make home users care. I get a full screen popup every couple weeks reminding me that Win 10 is going out of support and my pc isn’t eligible to upgrade. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them get more aggressive with that shit in October. I also ran into issues with 7 where apps would just refuse to work on it so they have that route to fuck us too.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 17 hours ago
Lol there is a pc with win xp at my job that is offline but its the only pc left with software we need. Apparently it won’t run on new stuff. I call bs but its survived this long somehow.
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Question is has the company who made the software gone bust and is the software so nieche that no one else has made a replacement?
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
Its software for a very specific widget that is still sold internationally from a vendor. Ppl could theoretically buy it directly from the vendor but we want to keep the premium i guess. once a year we get into problems with the widget and no one seems to know how it works. Like how? We sell hundreds a year. In fact it is so problematic we tell people to have the vendor service it than having our team do it. What a joke. Feels like massive bs that gets swept under rug every time.
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
At least there was an upgrade path from them.