Microsoft lays out Windows 10 life support prices
Microsoft lays out Windows 10 life support prices
Want security updates? It's gonna cost you
Obligatory: Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
Sure, if there's c/linux or c/foss on lemmy.zip I might post something about that. Currently we (lemmy.nz) have federation issues with LW (posts, comments and votes delayed for hours) and I have another issue with official lemmy (they were too political)
Sure. Have they managed to create a dumb down GUI that my grandparents can understand? Because until then, barrier for entry is too high for regular people.
Most linux distros are easier than Windows installs if you include the MS account and other crap you have to click through.
If you (not your grand parents) understand the concept of hard drives and files, you could probably get your grand parents set up on Linux connected to the internet just fine on any PC that's not some proprietary hellscape of hardware, because Linux will run on almost anything made in the last 30 years.
It only gets weird if you want to use a laptop with a dedicaded GPU 'and' an integrated one and only want to use the dedicated GPU sometimes and such.
The last Windows version!
I'm waiting for Windows 12, since it's only every other Windows OS that's worth using.
Unfortunately with the way they're going, W12 won't have mouse or keyboard support and a Cortana/Copilot/Cockamamie LLM will be the only way you can interact with your computer.
I heard they already killed off Cortana, which is (kind of) a shame since it was one of the more interesting voice assistants I've seen, plus it actually had some personality IIRC. They even got the voice pretty darn close to that of Jen Taylor.
At one point I managed to get the voice working in other TTS programs but the process was extremely convoluted and I'm sure it wouldn't work anymore, if the files are even still buried within Windows.
But back to your point, it will absolutely be Copilot or some other forgettable flavor-of-the-week
data siphonAI
If you want an activation key to apply to a Windows 10 device, you'll pay $61 per device for Year 1.
And that Year 1 is significant. Microsoft noted: "The price will double every consecutive year for a maximum of three years. If you decide to jump into the program in Year Two, you'll have to pay for Year One too, as ESUs are cumulative."
$61 => $122 => $244
And it's 100% profit per each device, since there is no ongoing work happening.
This is going to be a big problem for corpos, buying a new pc/laptop that meets the requirements with NPU and 16GB RAM is not a cheap. Especially for mid/small companies.
Best I can do is a one time payment of $3000
That's cute, I'll just keep using the LTSC version for free.
That's what I did on my ThinkPad (the 5G modem card isn't supported by Linux without building it, and fuck that, staying on some form of windows). I don't really want to wipe and install fresh everything for my gaming machine, but I think I'll have to. Unless 11 has changed some UI elements (like reintroducing keyboard shortcuts for context and right click menus), it's doa for me.
This will make me jump to Linux super fast