Raising this dead article as Microsoft now delivers extended support pricing details for those who choose not to migrate to the newer version of Windows. The one they were told they’d not ever have to migrate to

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    258 months ago

    And the thing of it is, millions of non-tech savvy people would not mind about having to move to Windows 11 and would do so in due course if Microsoft didn’t deliberately cripple it so it won’t run on a wide swath of not-too-old hardware.

    • Possibly linux
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      38 months ago

      They make your machine slow to you need to replace it. People now see computers and phones as almost disposable

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          28 months ago

          On the one hand I understand that it is expensive to keep providing support. However, that should not be an excuse. If the company does not want to support it they should have community support. We need more homegrown support and operating systems

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        They didn’t even do that here, they just flat out blacklisted old CPU in the installer.