lemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoMicrosoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another yearwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down14
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minus-squareBlaster M@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 days agoThis is like people complaining about how Ubuntu 16.04 LTS support ended not long ago (2021-04-29) Or macOS 10.9 Mavericks (2016-12-01) Or Android 6.0 (2018-08-01) Or Debian 8 “Jessie” (2018-06-17) Or Linux Mint 17 (2019-07-01) Or Fedora 23 (2016-12-20) Or Slackware 14.1 (2024-01-01) Of all of these, not even Slackware comes close to how long Microsoft has supported Windows 10 post release (2015)
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoYes, but you don’t migrate to Windows 11 from those.
minus-squareBlaster M@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 days agoYou do migrate to newer versions of those ossses with new de and backend lib versions, and all the breaking changes that entails which means spending another week chasing down broken stuff and learning how different things work now. Which is about the same
minus-squareElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoWindows XP. 2001–2019. If 10 beats that I’ll be impressed
minus-squareBlaster M@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days ago2014… the POS edition (basically LTSC) was 2019
minus-squareElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoI’m counting that–which means I also have to count Windows 10 IoT, whose support ends in 2032. XP still wins!
This is like people complaining about how Ubuntu 16.04 LTS support ended not long ago (2021-04-29)
Or macOS 10.9 Mavericks (2016-12-01)
Or Android 6.0 (2018-08-01)
Or Debian 8 “Jessie” (2018-06-17)
Or Linux Mint 17 (2019-07-01)
Or Fedora 23 (2016-12-20)
Or Slackware 14.1 (2024-01-01)
Of all of these, not even Slackware comes close to how long Microsoft has supported Windows 10 post release (2015)
Yes, but you don’t migrate to Windows 11 from those.
You do migrate to newer versions of those ossses with new de and backend lib versions, and all the breaking changes that entails which means spending another week chasing down broken stuff and learning how different things work now.
Which is about the same
Windows XP. 2001–2019. If 10 beats that I’ll be impressed
2014… the POS edition (basically LTSC) was 2019
I’m counting that–which means I also have to count Windows 10 IoT, whose support ends in 2032. XP still wins!