I bet they seen where people were switching to Linux. “Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) were supposed to end in October, but Microsoft now says the program will end on Oct. 12, 2027.”
Microsoft is forced to provide another year of security updates because a series of historic and ongoing colossal fuckups have made it more commercially viable for them to do so than the alternative.
There is no “give” here, they are doing it for themselves, that the user potentially benefits is incidental.
Microsoft is one of the richest companies in the world. They should not have to be forced to do fucking shit, they can afford to provide security updates until the sun explodes or the release a competent OS that isn’t made explicitly to steal your data.
Probably the former.
I meant ‘forced’ as in ’ forced by their capitalist greed and culture ’ not like there’s an actual threat to anything but the quarterly bonuses of the current golden parachute holder.
Eventually, perhaps they’ll fuck up enough for it to be an existential threat to the company.
I’m the meantime they’ll just continue pretending copilot is a serious contender outside of their walled garden and probably lay off a few thousand people they don’t care about, to balance the numbers.
Edit : “a few days later” - https://lemmy.world/post/48874177
Like that is going to bring back those who already switched to Linux… Lol
Did you not read my whole comments , lol??? This is if you have to be on the Windows shit slop.
And I’ve given myself an upgrade to the penguin 🐧
This penguin randomly popped up in my mind, lol.
That shit made me switch to Linux. Now that I crested that learning curve, I ain’t ever going back. Stable Diffusion is 10 to 20% more efficient? Sweet. The only hiccup is with older obscure games. But I shouldn’t be playing games in the first place.
Karma farming isn’t a thing here. You don’t get anywhere by making these virtue or ideology signaling posts.
Should be enough time for hypervisor cracks to work on Linux, already saw on csrin that they are in test.
