• scops
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    853 days ago

    The whole point of the Sword of Damocles was that the threat was always looming and Damocles didn’t know when it might fall. We know exactly when Microsoft says they are going to drop support. There’s a decent chance that they’ll push that date back due to slow adoption at least once.

    This is more about rats not fleeing the sinking ship until the sea has reached the bow.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 days ago

      Well, the real moment it becomes an issue is when a significant vulnerability is found after EOS. So I guess after EOS is when the sword of damocles starts hanging above every win 10 user…

      Personally I’m on the edge of the ship just waiting to jump off once i have my new pc (probably next week).

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      3 days ago

      More like rats not joining a leaking ship. I’ve been through enough windows upgrades to know: Don’t be the first! You’ll only end up paying to be a software tester for a product MS had to ship before it’s ready to keep the shareholders happy.

      Don’t be the first one in the water after the shark warning …

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      163 days ago

      With the shit they built into 10 I really would not be surprised if they put in a kill switch

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        153 days ago

        “Sword of Damocles” like bitch we used service pack 2 XP for ever. “We won’t support something” means nothing if the original product was built right.

        …Ohhh now I see the problem. Nevermind, everybody, carry on.

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          73 days ago

          I know people still running XP sp3 (firewalled off the net) and it still does the job. They claimed to have killed 7 but between FOSS and enshittification pushback I reckon it’s gonna be like the PS2