See, there is absolutely no reason for this. It's simply out of spite for their users.

LibreOffice, rise!

The harder MS tries to force Win11 on me the clearer it becomes how bad it is.

I will move to another office suit,install, and learn a completely new OS like Linux after 40 years of Windows before I ever install their unnecessary and untrustworthy data-miner.

Win10 was bad but most of it could be removed/worked around. This time it's clearly war against typical users so F it I'm out.

For those about to switch, welcome to Linux! If you have AMD hardware give Linux Mint a shot. If you have NVIDIA, Pop!_OS is worth your first install.

Switch to Linux Mint and Libreoffice. You will thank me later!

That's when Windows 10 stops getting security updates. Expect most software vendors to drop support for Windows 10 this year if they haven't already. That doesn't necessarily mean things will stop working, but it will not be tested and they won't spend time fixing Win10-specific problems.

In enterprise, you can get an additional three years of "extended security updates". That's your grace period to get everyone in your org upgraded.

While I strongly relate to anyone who hates Windows 11, "continue using Windows 10 forever" was never a viable long-term strategy.

Windows 10 was released in 2015. Ten years of support for an OS is industry-leading, on par with Red Hat or Ubuntu's enterprise offerings and far ahead of any competing consumer OS. Apple generally only offers three years of security updates. Google provides 3-4 years of security updates. Debian gets 5 years.

There has never been a time in the history of personal computing when using an OS for over 10 years without a major upgrade was realistic. That would be like using Windows 3.1 after XP was released. Windows 10 is dead, and it's been a long time coming.

Now go download Fedora.

libreoffice, however, will continue to support windows 10

Me, still using a site licensed copy of Office 2007 from a job I had over a decade ago.

So, an abundance of software companies come and go while they stand tallest for decades. Then, now, at this moment just when shit is going down, they decide to try the business model all other failing companies used. God it must be such a different world for these decision makers that can't see how actual people think and act. It's a baffling phenomenon to me.

I just realized. Windows 10 is being shelved but there is only one version ahead of it.

I remember xp still being considered good when i had win 8 installed.

How is that not understood as as a blatant attempt to maximize user control?

Actually looking at the numbers xp and 8.1 retired within 2 years of eachother. And 10 first got retired in 2020 a year before win 11 was released to make way of windows as a service updates which is actually what is getting retired later this year.

Microsoft kindly please get your shit together… or dont and strengthen my work requests to migrate systems to Linux.

No thanks, it takes excel 2-3 seconds to load a blank document, which pisses me off every time.

So what's the news here? Win 10 support ends in october. Doesn't that automatically mean that they will also not support office apps running on Win 10 starting october?

LibreOffice and OnlyOffice are decent replacements. I haven't paid for Microsoft Office in decades.

It's time to use LibreOffice & OnlyOffice

I'll use Windows 10 and pay for the updates for years while using old versions of office. Fuck Windows 11.

Lots of people using libre office.

Where my open offices boys at!

Holy shit, that's quick

I am so glad that LibreOffice products satisfy my needs, can't even imagine having to upgrade just to use the Office suite! That sounds insane but thankfully LibreOffice, again, is solid but I get if Microsoft Office is better in a professional setting.

That is pretty rough, even for Micor$oft.