Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026.

FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It is, u less you pay more

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• bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’ve always said that extended support would be available. It’s like this with every single enterprise product. Red Hat Linux, VMware, etc all do it.

  I’m all for circle jerking against Microsoft, they fucking suck. But this particular example is just such a dumb thing to get on a soapbox about. Businesses can’t be expected to indefinitely support a piece of technology for free. Some Linux distros can do it because people volunteer their time and skills to do so. But that isn’t feasible for a business to just pay dozens of developers to continuously work on a product that isn’t actively pulling in revenue.

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  • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Businesses can’t be expected to indefinitely support a piece of technology for free.

    Of course not but they themselves announced long ago that win10 will be EOL’d in October 2025. Then later they announced that you can buy extra support for plenty and increasing amounts of money. And now this.

    Though even longer ago they announced that win10 will be the last windows ever.

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    • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They never said Win 10 would be the last ever. That was an off-handed comment made by one of the developers during an interview that the media spread as an official Microsoft statement, which it wasn’t.

      And yes, MS said the EOL was October 2025, but anyone that’s familiar with any of Microsoft’s previous software sunsets know that they always offer paid extended support. For example, Windows Server 2012R2 was sunset in what, 2023sh? But they offer paid extended support up to sometime in 2026.

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