• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 days ago

    I like all the comments ready to take a fisting in the ass from Microsoft just to keep Windows 10.

    If you raised a fucking stink instead of taking this shitty deal, they may be forced to keep supporting it for free anyway like they did with Windows 7.

    They’ve really got you guys cowed into paying for the convenience of getting fucked, don’t they?

    This is a company with a market cap of $3.04 trillion and you guys are just gonna bend over and take it for $30 bucks? Wew lad. They don’t need your fucking thirty dollars, and you fucking know it. It’s a god damned shakedown.

    Microsoft: Wouldn’t it be a shame if your computer was somehow insecure and got hacked?

    Sounds like a Mafioso showing up for protection money to me.

    EDIT: There’s still about 700 million Windows 10 PC’s still on the market. If every single existing Windows 10 machine paid for this service, Microsoft would make $21 billion dollars next year off this alone. It’s a shakedown, do the fucking math. (700,000,000 x $30 = $21,000,000,000) Even if only half do it, it’s still a cool $10.5 billion.

    EDIT II: This also normalizes the practice of paying for security updates for consumers. You really want to take us down that path where every security update is paid?

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      9 days ago

      Microsoft: heh heh heh, looks like you’ll be paying me $30 for that windows 10 installation.

      Me: Bitch, I’m on Windows 7, and keep ignoring the OS bitching at me to turn the firewall on!

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            To be fair, that really depends what you use your PC for. Looking at youtube without a profile, and reddit and the news, playing music, offline games. You will be 100% fine. If you have to log into somewhere with sensitive data, don’t. But as a secondary device you PROBABLY will be fine. Requires significant discipline, to not accidentally log into facebook on it though.

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              8 days ago

              Me not logging into facebook doesn’t require discipline. I haven’t done it in…

              checks time

              …ever.

              Now, I DO log into government nuke code websites. And I also check Burger King’s website. Just to see if they still sell burgers.

              As of last week…they do!

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                7 days ago

                See for exaple the fact wheter you ‘have’ to have facebook kinda locates you as an American. This is the issue with ‘sensitive’ data you may or may not know what it is.

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              8 days ago

              Why are people on your LAN exploiting vulnerabilities on your computer? Don’t you also have a network firewall and NAT?

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                8 days ago

                The biggest danger isn’t viruses sneaking their way in, it’s from the web browser and email client.

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      9 days ago

      It would make sense if Microsoft was liable for any security faults. I’d actually pay for something like that but of course you’re probably paying for some nebulous promise of something between security at best effort basis and whatever they feel like.

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      8 days ago

      What an idiotic perspective. Microsoft has supported W10 for literally 12 years at the cutoff date. Show me another software product that receives TWELVE YEARS worth of free support. 30 bucks is fair enough. For enterprises this is play money, if you are a private, you could upgrade fucking 7 keys. Which means, you didn’t need to pay a fucking cent to MS since 2007. No one has ever matched this kinda support. Ten percent of this is considered fucking generous.

      And herre is a thought for you. The reason why windows is full of adware and spyware is precisely because of dickheads, who won’t pay 30 fucking dollars EVERY TWENTY YEARS. This is your fault.

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      8 days ago

      The last usable windows, maybe

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      8 days ago

      Hmm, but did they say the last version of Windows, or the last version of Windows you’re going to buy? And if it’s the latter, is the upgrade to Windows 11 free? If yes, then technically it’s still correct.

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          Thank goodness the clouds parted and his holy billionaire visage emerged with the gift of [*angelic chorus] vaccines otherwise we would all be dead now (and he wouldn’t have made a 20 to 1 return on investment). Thank god for billionaires and their unquestionable wisdom.

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        I mean, that was back when if you wanted a home computer, you were building it yourself from parts from Radio Shack. Not exactly the same thing. I’m not certain that even Apple had the Apple 1 out at that point. I know they hadn’t made the Mac 128k, and weren’t going to for several years.

        I haven’t ever met anyone that thought Bill Gates was prescient, just a lucky businessman.

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          8 days ago

          The joke being that he didn’t actually say it, same as Microsoft never stating 10 being the last version of Windows ever

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      9 days ago

      I 'member.

      Twas Dickity 14 or so, and I plan to make good on Microsofts words.

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      8 days ago

      They never actually said this. Some MS Engineer did and the press ran with it.

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        And even that engineer only said “last” to mean “latest”, which is obvious from context, but why let that get in the way of clickbaity articles.