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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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[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (56 children)

Why are people making a huge deal out of this? Win10 was released in 2015, and support ends in 2025. That's 10 years of support, I don't think this is unreasonable for a consumer product by any means.

As far as industry goes it's a bit short, but nothing catastrophic. There's plenty of xp machines still running just fine in many places. Lack of security updates is less crucial for most of these applications since they're often not required to be connected to internet.

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As far as industry goes it’s a bit short

Industry standard is 5-6 years of support. After that, you replace the PC anyway.

[–] sederx@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

After that, you replace the PC anyway.

you really dont have to though

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In enterprise, you generally do.
You don't have to throw it away, just sell it, donate it or use it privately.

[–] sederx@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

no? if theres no need to upgrade machine you just dont. most enterprise do because that shit is not supported anymore, so if they are internet enabled they dont have much choice.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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