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      11 months ago

      At that point, the OS will be 10 years old, and was a free upgrade for anyone running Windows 7 or later. It’s plausible to not have paid a cent for your OS for 15+ years by 2025.

      If you’ve bought a new computer with Windows since 2021, you’ll have v11 anyway and won’t be affected.

      Frankly I have to hand it to Microsoft - they’ve been generous with OS support. The pessimist/pragmatist part of me puts it down to upgrading old OS’s to combat their reputation as being the cause of worms/viruses going mental on the Internet over the past decade or so. So it isn’t like they haven’t had ulterior motives.

      But yeah, I can’t really fault them for this one.

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        11 months ago

        Microsoft outdoes every other (paid) OS including Chrome, Android*, iOS, and Mac in terms of their longterm support, as far as I am concerned.

        But Win10 is still the end of the line for me, I suspect. All the MS Account stuff deeply integrated into 11 is a bridge too far.

        *(which is free, but also doesn’t get properly supported on older devices)

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      11 months ago

      Yes, security is a service.

      If you ever got any without paying for it, then thank whoever did… or ask yourself how they benefitted from you in other ways.