I m a Linux user for 10 years now and well… I just wanted to say that, bye
The herd keeps me secure
How about I continue using it forever and I just MIGHT not blow up all your datacenters ?
Still cheaper than my Arch Premium membership
Thank you for your service to Linux adoption o7
Microsoft got the grift of a century. Make Win11 so bad that people will literally pay you NOT to force them onto it! /s
Seriously though, fuck Microsoft - $30 per year to roll out the occasional security update is obscene! They can go stuff themselves with their $3 trillion market cap
If you’re somewhat tech savvy, don’t have anything against the high seas and absolutely need Windows, look into Windows 10 LTSC.
That’s a great tip, thanks ! Do you know if I can upgrade my regular Windows 10 to this version without having to uninstall everything ?
Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC specifically
“Enrolled PCs will continue to receive Critical and Important security updates for Windows 10; however, new features, bug fixes, and technical support will no longer be available from Microsoft,” explains Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Anyone who’s had to open a Microsoft support ticket can assure you technical support is already not available from Microsoft.
Duh, they want the money
$30 to not have to deal with Windows 11 for another year feels like the deal of the century.
I love how they’re like ‘but you won’t get new features!’. They may have still not figured out that nobody cares about ‘new features’ being stuffed into the OS, but I guess you can’t have everything.
A subscription for continued support seems fair. (If there are no ads).
Are you serious? It’s Microsoft.
And at this point I don’t trust Microsoft to not stuff them in there as a “last update for Windows 10”
literally feeding the troll.
I think it’s fairly optimistic to believe that they’ll stop bugging you with the Windows 11 upgrade even if you do pay $30.
Extended updates always cost money, and this is pretty cheap relative to extended support for previous versions of Windows. I don’t understand why it’s newsworthy?
Windows 10 is nearly ten years old.
I bet they would be willing to do it right while you are in the middle of something important if you paid them an extra $30 on top of that.
Knowing Windows users they probably just complained about it and pay Microdicksoft anyway
If Microsoft wants to buy me a new computer to get me off Win10, they’re more than happy to.
Fuck that. I already paid for the Pro edition of 10 specifically for features Windows 11 doesn’t have in any version. IDGAF if it’s free; it’s not an upgrade. It’s a downgrade.
Why l would pay 30$ to dumpester fire OS to use it securely for another year when l could install Linux for free with more than 7 year security? And consumers can only pay for single year. It just shows how M$ doesn’t care about their costumers treating them like lab rats.
They don’t expect home users to pay. Remember that they often refuse to even reboot their computers to receive security updates.
Extended support is pretty much intended exclusively for enterprises.
