Windows 10 gets a version of the program that extended updates for Windows 7.
Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them::Windows 10 gets a version of the program that extended updates for Windows 7.
Why are people making a huge deal out of this? Win10 was released in 2015, and support ends in 2025. That’s 10 years of support, I don’t think this is unreasonable for a consumer product by any means.
As far as industry goes it’s a bit short, but nothing catastrophic. There’s plenty of xp machines still running just fine in many places. Lack of security updates is less crucial for most of these applications since they’re often not required to be connected to internet.
Technologically, Window is great. There is no denying that, and if anything some the dated (+ insecure) things on it is the result of its own success, i.e. the app installation and management process, as it is hard to convince billions of people to do anything different.
On the other hand, the management of the company is the biggest problem with everything in and around Window. First, there is no single business model; MS sells you a 1 time licence for the OS itself, but then constantly try to harvest and sell your data (with ads everywhere in Windows 11), and if you want to do any office work then you have to pay a subscription for MS 365. Last but not least, they keep breaking things every few updates, i.e. I actually failed one of my university course because OneDrive decided that my report don’t need to exist after an update (in 2018).
They just want to shout about them while ignoring paid support for extended life Linux.
Ironically, you’re just shouting about linux while ignoring the context behind the paid support for “extended life linux”
The paid support is for enterprise linux distros like Red Hat. This support is aimed at businesses. Not regular end users.
Regular users can get Long Term Support (LTS) versions of regular distros entirely free. Such as Ubuntu’s LTS versions. With the cool addition of being able to freely move to the next LTS version whenever that comes out to replace the current LTS version.
At least you don’t have to pay for the next LTS version of ubuntu. Nor do you have to meet daft hardware requirements to upgrade to the next LTS. You can just seamlessly upgrade to the next LTS version.
Because you think they should pay more for a product they already bought or because privacy and security are not important?
I said they didn’t have to think bout it for another two years…none of what you’re saying makes sense in relation to that. Its good they don’t need to worry about it (yet), because the issues it may cause them is still far away.
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.
I can’t upgrade to Windows 11 (not that I’d want to considering all their enshittification), so they’re leaving me with an unsecured OS. I survive on £160 a month so, no, I won’t be paying for fucking security updates, instead I’ll be switching to Linux and literally never considering using Windows again.
It’s also not reasonable to expect updates forever. No matter what, support for software always stops at some point, and 10 years of support is pretty reasonable for consumer products. Not great, but also not terrible.
I’m not gonna pay for updates, I’m just stick with my old win 7 untill the end. Glad i take the right decision to full backup 8 years ago
Although i never got updates or can run modern apps anymore, at least i got very stable & less annoying windows
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Welp, time for online security across the world to be destroyed! No one is going to pay that
Why are people making a huge deal out of this? Win10 was released in 2015, and support ends in 2025. That’s 10 years of support, I don’t think this is unreasonable for a consumer product by any means.
As far as industry goes it’s a bit short, but nothing catastrophic. There’s plenty of xp machines still running just fine in many places. Lack of security updates is less crucial for most of these applications since they’re often not required to be connected to internet.
Technologically, Window is great. There is no denying that, and if anything some the dated (+ insecure) things on it is the result of its own success, i.e. the app installation and management process, as it is hard to convince billions of people to do anything different.
On the other hand, the management of the company is the biggest problem with everything in and around Window. First, there is no single business model; MS sells you a 1 time licence for the OS itself, but then constantly try to harvest and sell your data (with ads everywhere in Windows 11), and if you want to do any office work then you have to pay a subscription for MS 365. Last but not least, they keep breaking things every few updates, i.e. I actually failed one of my university course because OneDrive decided that my report don’t need to exist after an update (in 2018).
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I suspect that despite not supporting it with security updates, the juicy telemetry will still be collected and sold to data brokers.
Ironically, you’re just shouting about linux while ignoring the context behind the paid support for “extended life linux”
The paid support is for enterprise linux distros like Red Hat. This support is aimed at businesses. Not regular end users.
Regular users can get Long Term Support (LTS) versions of regular distros entirely free. Such as Ubuntu’s LTS versions. With the cool addition of being able to freely move to the next LTS version whenever that comes out to replace the current LTS version.
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At least you don’t have to pay for the next LTS version of ubuntu. Nor do you have to meet daft hardware requirements to upgrade to the next LTS. You can just seamlessly upgrade to the next LTS version.
Unlike Windows.
Because windows 11 is ass
Good thing you don’t even need to think about switching for another two years then.
Because you think they should pay more for a product they already bought or because privacy and security are not important?
I said they didn’t have to think bout it for another two years…none of what you’re saying makes sense in relation to that. Its good they don’t need to worry about it (yet), because the issues it may cause them is still far away.
Two years isn’t that long, and in 2 years Windows 11 will still be ass.
I’m on Linux, I’m not even relevant to this conversation.
Even less of an issue then, why the fuck care if Win11 sucks ass when you’re not even part of their customer base.
Ironically, I am invested in Windows sucking ass, because it means more Linux users.
Industry standard is 5-6 years of support. After that, you replace the PC anyway.
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.
I can’t upgrade to Windows 11 (not that I’d want to considering all their enshittification), so they’re leaving me with an unsecured OS. I survive on £160 a month so, no, I won’t be paying for fucking security updates, instead I’ll be switching to Linux and literally never considering using Windows again.
It’s also not reasonable to expect updates forever. No matter what, support for software always stops at some point, and 10 years of support is pretty reasonable for consumer products. Not great, but also not terrible.
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For Enterprise Editions.
I’m not gonna pay for updates, I’m just stick with my old win 7 untill the end. Glad i take the right decision to full backup 8 years ago
Although i never got updates or can run modern apps anymore, at least i got very stable & less annoying windows
god i really hope this is either a joke or a backup computer that has no access to the Internet
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