Windows 10 gets a version of the program that extended updates for Windows 7.

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.

  • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    118·
    11 months ago

    It’s also not reasonable to expect updates forever. No matter what, support for software always stops at some point, and 10 years of support is pretty reasonable for consumer products. Not great, but also not terrible.

    • Bongles@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      Normally sure, but maybe Microsoft shouldn’t have tried saying windows 10 was the last windows version, to then release a new version that a lot of people can’t even upgrade their current PCs to.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      53·
      11 months ago

      But consider that windows is a paid product, and its competition, linux, is both free and with much much longer support for old hardware, not to mention never having “sequels” in this way. I feel like windows doesn’t have much excuse compared to this.

        • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          32·
          11 months ago

          Windows 11, while you can work around it, specifically requests tpm, which definitively is not from 1999…

          Also, windows has its own endless list of driver issues, hardware does not always “just work” on windows, on the other hand, it also often “just works” on linux. It depends, of course, but I never had to install a sketchy driver for my PS3 controller on linux (it’s in the kernel), but I had to on windows. Not to mention printers.

          A bunch of software is also only or primarily for Linux, though that depends of course on your field and what you need. I’ve seen plenty of software that I needed that did not have a proper (or as good) windows alternative.

          • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            21·
            11 months ago

            I mean, TPM 2.0 is already 4 years old so were not really talking about MS requiring cutting-edge tech when they stop supporting Win10 in two years.

            • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              11·
              11 months ago

              My computer parts were like 8+ years old when I replaced them. And I can afford to do so, not everyone can.

              • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                But getting a 6 year old used laptop by the time its necessary is fortunately pretty cheap. And for consumers there’s honestly very few that need to use windows, so there’s always Linux distros as an alternative.

                I get that it’s not a good move for consumers, I’m not disagreeing with that. But it’s just also so very far from the catastrophe that so many seem to insist it is. It’s honestly just a mild inconvenience, and the coverage it’s getting is IMO completely out of proportion to the problem.

                • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  It’s more that windows constantly has all of these little things that build up to something big. For some it’s just the straw that broke the camel’s back.