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Windows 7 Will Get Updates for Four More Years -- If You Pay (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:
With the Windows 7 end-of-support clock slowly winding down to January 14, 2020, Microsoft is announcing it will offer, for a fee, continuing security updates for the product through January 2023. This isn't the first time Microsoft has done this for a version of Windows, but it may be the first time it has been so public about its plans to do so.
The paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) will be sold on a per-device basis, with the price increasing each year. These ESUs will be available to any Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise users with volume-licensing agreements, and those with Windows Software Assurance and/or Windows 10 Enterprise or Education subscriptions will get a discount. Office 365 ProPlus will continue to work on devices with Windows 7 Extended Security Updates through January 2023.
The paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) will be sold on a per-device basis, with the price increasing each year. These ESUs will be available to any Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise users with volume-licensing agreements, and those with Windows Software Assurance and/or Windows 10 Enterprise or Education subscriptions will get a discount. Office 365 ProPlus will continue to work on devices with Windows 7 Extended Security Updates through January 2023.
Because you have some crappy bit of unsupported proprietary software that doesn't run on windows 10 and will cost a bucket load to replace.
because they don't want to give up control of THEIR hardware or the software they've PAID FOR
because they don't want to be 'the product' forced to view advertisements, have sponsored apps shoved up their asses, or be spied on BY A FUCKING OPERATING SYSTEM, or have that same operating system download updates willy-nilly, which OFTEN IRREPARABLY BREAKS THE SYSTEM or uses up precious data quotas resulting in overage charges.
an operating system should, i dunno, OPERATE THE SYSTEM.. and JUST THAT.. i know, what a novel and retro concept... nothing else; not be a damn revenue stream and avenue for spying.
I wasted SIX HOURS updating a laptop yesterday.
And yet, you're still using Windows. At this point, Microsoft knows that they own you and your laptop. Why should they care what you want when they know you will keep paying and promoting them regardless of what they do to you?
Well USB and built in firewall for one :-)
Old geeks remember only the good times of the good old days. Not NT4 required a ps2 to USB adapter and Windows 2000 required a reboot when you unplug a mouse as it's not plug n play or that your system was 0wned without blackice firewall software etc.
XP was a security nightmare too!
Windows 7 was gorgeous and had improved security and was light enough to run on an atom.
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