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Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (56 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Because windows 11 is ass

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Good thing you don't even need to think about switching for another two years then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because you think they should pay more for a product they already bought or because privacy and security are not important?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Two years isn't that long, and in 2 years Windows 11 will still be ass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm on Linux, I'm not even relevant to this conversation.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even less of an issue then, why the fuck care if Win11 sucks ass when you're not even part of their customer base.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Ironically, I am invested in Windows sucking ass, because it means more Linux users.

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