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Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

As far as industry goes it’s a bit short

Industry standard is 5-6 years of support. After that, you replace the PC anyway.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    After that, you replace the PC anyway.

    you really dont have to though

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago*

    “Don’t have to” and “don’t” are different things. I’ve never been in an enterprise environment that kept PCs much beyond their 2/3 year service window.

    In fact, they messed up and got consumer hardware once. They EOLd the devices at 6 months when they realized they only got a month of support.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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.

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