Comment on Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them

• sederx@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  After that, you replace the PC anyway.

  you really dont have to though

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  • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In enterprise, you do.
    You don’t have to throw it away, just sell it, donate it or use it privately.

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    • sederx@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      no? if theres no need to upgrade machine you just dont. most enterprise do because that shit is not supported anymore, so if they are internet enabled they dont have much choice.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Don’t have to” and “don’t” are different things. I’ve never been in an enterprise environment that kept PCs beyond their 2/3 year service window.

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• DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Really depends on the industry I guess…we meet a lot of old XP and Win7 machines when visiting sites. Engineering stations rarely get updated unless the hardwares breaks, and a lot of software used to service the machines/production line from the engineering station often don’t run on a never OS.

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