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Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11 (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 15 points 2 months ago* (7 children)

Honestly, Microsoft may be full of arseholes, but moves like this at least one sane human works for the company.

It takes balls to admit you fucked up , and this is one employee showing some balls.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    That's one way of seeing it. Another is "if we kick them out of 10 and they are not willing to go to 11, they will switch to Linux or go Mac, we'd rather have them on 10 than not at all"

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Or more likely just continue to use Windows 10 when it's no longer supported.

    Microsoft is squeezing everyone with EOL shenanigans. If it becomes commonplace to continue using software when it's no longer supported, this strategy no longer works.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Honestly, Microsoft doesn't give a shit about anyone but enterprise customers. They were probably told to get bent by one too many large companies running fleets of thousands of old embedded systems or call centres packed with old desktops or something.

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