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Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 39 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

“Enrolled PCs will continue to receive Critical and Important security updates for Windows 10; however, new features, bug fixes, and technical support will no longer be available from Microsoft,” explains Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

[–] mlfh@lemmy.ml 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone who's had to open a Microsoft support ticket can assure you technical support is already not available from Microsoft.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

You have to be a really, really big company with an established connection with Microsoft to actually talk to the real engineers. Any tier of regular support only gets you the "sfc and clean boot" garbage.

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