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Windows 10 users were right: Microsoft admits its end of support was the real Windows 11 sales driver (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 53 points 3 months ago* (10 children)

Not only that, they used it as a way to have offices upgrade to Windows 11 for the never specified reason of "cyber security" which is where most of their sales come from. The company I work for just had to replace 15 computers at the start of the year and now half of the older software we use doesn't work anymore. Not only that but we were using Office 2019 with a perpetual license that they invalidated so now we have to get Microsoft 365

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Same here, now we have to replace countless testing PCs because they don't have TPM 2. In our case migrating the software wasn't that difficult, but still a shame to throw out perfectly good hardware. And due to paranoid internal regulations, the PCs are to be fully shredded as well...

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah I asked my boss if I could take one home and turn it into a Linux machine for testing and he said the same thing. He even wanted photo evidence that they were destroyed.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    They invalidated a perpetual licence? How?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They already did it for Mac but from what I've been told by our IT guy that it'll be all of Office 2019 here pretty soon. Take it with a grain of salt because the IT guy might just be covering his bases before something gets fucked up and he gets blamed for it.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    I’ve just read they ended support and won’t be providing security updates, so given how quickly new vulnerabilities are being discovered I guess a business can’t keep a known vulnerability on the network.

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