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Re:Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. Make your curr... by Hilift on Thursday June 19, 2025 @01:05PM (#44320512)
> I work in a research lab with 10s of 1000s of dollars worth of Windows 10 workstations that cannot be upgraded.

It's the same situation as last time with Windows 7. You can get three years of extended support for the monthly cumulative update, which I assume is being done given it is fairly inexpensive. The US government gets favorable pricing from Microsoft.

The consumer price for Windows 10 ESU is $30/$60/$90 for the first/second/third year.

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Re:Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. Make your curr... by cosmicgadget on Thursday June 19, 2025 @02:01PM (#44320982)
Hopefully this will be popular enough that Steam and Mozilla and others won't drop Win10 support for several more years.
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Re:Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. Make your curr... by bitbiter on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:50PM (#44321949)
Steam dropped support for Windows XP and Windows Vista at the same time, about 5 years after Microsoft ended support for Windows XP and 2 years after support ended for Windows Vista
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Re:Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. Make your curr... by em-bee on Thursday June 19, 2025 @01:13PM (#44320606)
compared to buying a new machine that's actually not that bad. i am not a windows user but spending $180 to extend the life of a fairly new machine by another three years may just be worth it.
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Re:Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. Make your curr... by ponector on Thursday June 19, 2025 @04:03PM (#44322055)
If person cannot buy a new machine I bet they will continue use old one without bothering of getting paid updates.

Some companies may be buying prolongation for specific equipment which run win10.

Computers are cheap!

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