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Consumers would really like Microsoft (and Apple) TO SUPPORT OLDER OPERATING SYSTEMS (and we know they can do it -- older government computers still get updates)!

Microsoft would really like you to replace your old Windows 10 PCs this year

The carrot of "new features" and the stick of "no more updates for your old PC."

Andrew Cunningham – Jan 6, 2025

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/as-it-buries-windows-10-microsoft-declares-2025-year-of-the-windows-11-pc-refresh/
#FuckPlannedObsolescence #RightToRepair #RightToUpgrade #Linux #PlannedObsolescence #ElectronicWaste #GreedyCEOs #MakeThemEatComputerChips

Microsoft would really like you to replace your old Windows 10 PCs this year

The carrot of “new features” and the stick of “no more updates for your old PC.”…
Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
#linux #RightToRepair #greedyceos #plannedobsolescence #fuckplannedobsolescence #righttoupgrade #electronicwaste #makethemeatcomputerchips
Flatted Fifth
the doj uses an air gapped windows 95 boxes to manage top secret information. a friend of mine who works at the doj said that if you want to see classified docs, they roll up with a windows 95 box on a cart with a printer. at least this is what they did like 3 years ago, but i doubt they've changed it.
LukefromDC
Even a Windows 3.1 box on a totally isolated system with no network and no outside mass storage devices allowed is going to be more secure than a Coreboot system running Qubes but connected to the Internet can ever be.

Anybody attempting to attack computers at a nuclear plant and risk a meltdown is an enemy not only of all humanity but of all living things save the few simple organisims that can use radiation-induced mutation to turbocharge their own evolution.

Covid and bird flu could benefit from a meltdown I suppose...
LukefromDC
Read after me:
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