Oh no!
Anyway, think how great gaming on Linux will be in 2 years.
My only holdback is modding - it’s tougher to do without dancing among wine configs. Really hoping for some innovation there.
I mean, it is great now, it’ll just keep getting better.
Exactly!
This will drive people to macOS before it drives them to Linux. I’m calling it now.
They can secure Deez nutz
Haven’t they always done this for corporate customers with EoL products?
I’m going to flip that back on them, Microsoft will have to pay me to update my OS.
This is the best news Linux could ever get, it’ll speed up development by 10 or 11 fold!
Looks like no more Windows 10 updates
Doesn’t this violation of customer service laws or something.
Remember that million page document people accept without reading?
The one that isn’t valid in most courts?
IANAL, but I don’t know if that’s relevant unless someone takes Microsoft to court.
I figured its about as relevant as anything else when it comes to a company as rich as microsoft, they could send a hit squad round to shoot your dad and leave a signed confession and still probably win the case through sheer weight of money.
Still not updating until you let me keep my taskbar where it is.
Gonna be a lot of unsecured PCs about then, thanks to that ridiculous TPM requirement.
prime enshittification.
“subscribe or die” is our future.
Seize the means of computation people!
Fuck off Microsoft.
I live in a 3rd world country and I can promise you that this is going to lead to a large percentage of the population using an insecure version of Windows 10 or just using mobile devices.
I doubt many people here will switch to Linux, but I can only hope. Maybe businesses will do that instead of buying new hardware. Recently, I saw a shop using Banana Pis as their checkout terminal.
Is this news? This is expected, it’s what they did with 7 and XP after those reached full EOL, which happened on the day they said it would for 7 at the time 7 launched, and a few years after the date they said when XP launched.
The 2025 date has been known since 2015 when 10 launched and is the standard Microsoft ten year support cycle for operating systems.
And yet, in spite of this, every single time the tech media published these breathless and shocked articles about how horrible it is that Microsoft is suddenly dropping support for their ten year old systems.
These articles are like clockwork. I’d say we’ll be getting them for Windows 11 in about seven or eight years, but they have a new “modern” lifestyle they’ve adopted for it that’s more based on last major update release or something and it’ll probably come sooner than that this time around.
That’s great! Means it won’t update randomly without my permission anymore.
Actually, it will likely “upgrade” you to Windows 11 whether you want it to or not.
German Government is still paying for XP and Win7 Updates, because some software just isn’t available on newer OS’s.
