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What Windows 10?๐Ÿ–•๐Ÿง

[โ€“] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Sounds like they're about to get sued by the EU because they're basically asking you to pay again for a product you have already paid for. Discontinuing a service that was advertised as the "last windows you'll ever need" is one thing, but sending you another bill on a whim is something entirely different. Microsoft might just have ensured the longevity of Win10 for the foreseeable future without making much if any profit from it.

[โ€“] mark3748@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Requiring a support contract to receive continuing updates of software that was very publicly approaching end of support, with published EoL dates for years now does not break any laws.

By that logic, no support contracts are legal in the EU at all, and no product would ever be sunset.

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[โ€“] suodrazah@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

But all my Windows VMs are offline and already years out of date? Go home Microsoft.

How about I continue using it forever and I just MIGHT not blow up all your datacenters ?

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

obligatory ๐Ÿง

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