• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    You think the US govt will let MS drop 2/3rds of US citizens laptops from support?

    I think some senators will hold a hearing to grandstand about security and forced obsolescence and MS will be shamed into extending the support window a couple more years.

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      2 months ago

      They only switched from XP what, less than 10 years ago?

      I think the hospital my mother works at was using XP for all of their computers until like 2018-2019

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        2 months ago

        But most hospital computers won’t be exposed to internet right? And they probably run a bunch of propriety software that only supports xp so makes sense it took them a long time.

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      2 months ago

      What will the government do themselves? I think they are still running 10, and I haven’t heard of any announcements from agencies switching.

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        2 months ago

        Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 has a 10 year support window, and subsequent LTSC versions, 5 years. If you can get your hands on one of these licences you would presumably continue to receive security patches. If the US government is somehow not running on this kind of licence, it would be pretty funny, but I’m sure Microsoft would be lenient and let them jump onto whatever compatible LTSC version given its an American company.