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Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 (lifehacker.com)
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Microsoft is being sued by a man who feels cheated by the current plans to sunset Windows 10. He makes some good points, but I doubt he'll win.

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 231 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (40 children)

He'd probably have an easier time with the lawsuit if instead of appealing to upgrade logic, he just went with, I don't know...

THE TIME MICROSOFT PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED WINDOWS 10 WOULD BE THE LAST NUMBERED VERSION AND THAT THEY'D NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE OS VERSION AGAIN.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32658340

Pepperidge Farm remembers, Microsoft scum.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Nixon wasn’t speaking authoritatively there, I believe both he and M$ clarified that. And the “correlating” announcement was more “we will be continuously updating windows 10” unlike the assumed by many people to mean “perpetually” which is just silly.

You’re telling me you expected windows 10 to remain forever the last Windows version? Maybe if they decided to rename the OS moving forward.

I suppose you could take the stance of it just becoming versioned in the same way Linux distros are, but then you just get left being on an old version of Windows 10.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“perpetually” which is just silly.

That's basically how Linux works, especially if you use a rolling release distro like Arch, openSUSE Tumbleweed, or Fedora Silverblue.

Honestly, if Windows followed a similar policy, I think people would be less interested in alternatives. Perhaps charge for access to new features, drop support for older hardware, etc, but let people keep using it if they like it.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

There’s nothing that would change here other than the name of what’s installed. People would still be unable to update to the new version.

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