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Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers (www.which.co.uk)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They seem to be contracting on all fronts except their datacenters. With a little luck, Micros**t will die out with a huge bang in a few years. The world will instantly become a better place for everyone..

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Instantly?

    Hospitals, telecoms, schools, universities, research labs the world over would be left without security updates or tech support. Businesses would crash out, access to everything from Sharepoint to Outlook to Entra ID SSO cut off rendering tens of millions unable to work and likely furloughed or redundant.

    Enjoy your accelerationist fantasies if you like, daring to assume that the void would be filled by fucking Linux Mint or something and not literally just Apple. But the idea that it would be instant is even more unhinged than the average .ml stammering about the misunderstood virtues of Russian anti-Imperialism.

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