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Re:With Microsoft Dumping MS Office, Consider LibreOffice fo... by cbsks on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:11PM (#20690291)
You aren’t forced to upgrade, you just won’t get support from Microsoft. The support lifecycle for every Microsoft product is here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hub/4095338/microsoft-li...

If you need to run software for longer than it is supported then you need to either need to negotiate a longer support contract, or be willing to live without support. I don’t think there is anything unreasonable about that.

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Re:With Microsoft Dumping MS Office, Consider LibreOffice fo... by russdpale on Thursday August 15, 2019 @03:04PM (#20708533)
See, I think that is the wrong way of thinking about it. It gives the software manufacturer an asymmetrical advantage over the customer that I don't believe is fair.

If the demand for the product is still there, the software manufacturer should be forced to support it with at least basic security upgrades. We are just asking to build an entire infrastructure on a shaky foundation because of some ridiculous dogmatic ideology to technological progress. Progress is great, but maintaining is what makes the world go around, just check out the salary of an experienced COBOL programmer.

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