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Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.