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Microsoft Offers $30 Windows 10 Security Extension for Home Users

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10 years is a long enough time in software lifecyle, though I am sure some here do think that Microsoft should keep supporting older Windows versions forever.
P.S.
Those 10 USD keys of yours... None of them are legal. :)
You act like PC gamers give one rats ass about legality. It's a community known for rampant theft.
 
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Are you kidding me, the whole windows system iso costs 10/15 bucks for ever before that bullshit or maybe you are living in another dimension :kookoo:
Where in the hell do you think 10/15 bucks is the "normal" price? The normal price is like 180/260 dollars (home/pro version, at least in my region).

And then there's the pricing for OEMs (your prebuilt PC and laptop makers, such as Lenovo, Dell, etc.) which varies but last I heard it was anywhere from like 45 dollars for the Home version on low-spec devices to somewhere around a 100 dollars for higher spec devices.

The 10/15 bucks are for keys bought in markets selling Enterprise keys most of the time. Which Microsoft didn't authorize reselling of (not that they will necessary witch-hunt people for doing so, rather they'll disable the keys or go after the companies that broke contract).

You act like PC gamers give one rats ass about legality. It's a community known for rampant theft.
They don't. Doesn't mean that your 10/15 dollar key is the normal.

PS: The "normal" is straight up 0 dollars outside of a few countries
 
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Education gets three years for 1 dollar each user each year, seemingly. So quite cheap and mostly symbolic.

Hospitals and institutions should be on business-like contracts so each case might be different and can't really be dumbed down to "oh Micro$oft is bleeding everyone dry"


State governments should be on business like contracts as well and they should have budgeted their goddamn systems upgrades as well.

Also, intervention? The only government that could intervene is the US one, and it would be seen as the government getting into things they shouldn't so it will never happen.
Clearly, you've never worked for any government agency in the USA. Budgeting for IT is an afterthought and/or they look to slash it so far it causes issues, then higher ups want to know what the problem is.
 
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10 years is a long enough time in software lifecyle, though I am sure some here do think that Microsoft should keep supporting older Windows versions forever.
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Those 10 USD keys of yours... None of them are legal. :)
Why should it be made obsolete? It's not very environmental of them, there's plenty of PCs that MS will not allow to run 11 because reasons, but run 10 just fine. Forcing those machines to retirement is not good at all.

There's no technical reason they *need* to stop at 10 years. 10 and 11 are shockingly similar under the hood.

Where in the hell do you think 10/15 bucks is the "normal" price? The normal price is like 180/260 dollars (home/pro version, at least in my region).

And then there's the pricing for OEMs (your prebuilt PC and laptop makers, such as Lenovo, Dell, etc.) which varies but last I heard it was anywhere from like 45 dollars for the Home version on low-spec devices to somewhere around a 100 dollars for higher spec devices.

The 10/15 bucks are for keys bought in markets selling Enterprise keys most of the time. Which Microsoft didn't authorize reselling of (not that they will necessary witch-hunt people for doing so, rather they'll disable the keys or go after the companies that broke contract).


They don't. Doesn't mean that your 10/15 dollar key is the normal.

PS: The "normal" is straight up 0 dollars outside of a few countries
You act like the retail box price is the only way to bu the OS. Let me guess, you think that Office cost $300 and theres no way anyone owns a legal copy for under $50 too?

Don't forget:
3... We paid $12 for a Win license at everdeals247365.com and $30 seems rather steep in comparison.
4. People got a free 10 upgrade from their 7/8/8.1 key and after 15+ years paying $30 for more security updates doesnt sound that bad.
Who cares about updates anyway. I just made iso with 11 ltsc stripped it to barebones, even smartscreen is not working there.
Most of AppX is also removed etc etc. Update obviously is disabled permanently who need that crap anyway.
Perfect system for my needs. 65 processes running in background and 1.2gb in memory used(with nvidia drivers etc.)
People who care about security updates.

This is like building a stripped out drag racer and asking why people care about having power seats or functioning HVAC.
 
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Clearly, you've never worked for any government agency in the USA.
No need to. I see the same and worse shit here (looking at the tax office using an old-ass version of Apache that's been EOL for nearly a decade and half now, and that's supposed to be free software, and the pirated software black hole that lives in the public administration).

Doesn't change the fact that they should properly manage their systems tho.

You act like the retail box price is the only way to bu the OS. Let me guess, you think that Office cost $300 and theres no way anyone owns a legal copy for under $50 too?
The retail box doesn't exist here. The equivalent is purchasing it through the MS Store if you want an official license (which gets tied to your account, with all the conveniences and problems that may bring).

Also, let's establish for this conversation that "legal" copy means you abide by all the terms of your license. Getting a key that was meant for only a certain company's use isn't legal, though I doubt anyone could truly do anything against you, since you'd not be a company, but rather a home user.

Granted, if that PC is in a company using a license from a different company, it could be problematic (I've known of companies getting sued and forced to pay the licensing costs plus fines here over pirated and misappropriated licenses for Office and Windows).
theres no way anyone owns a legal copy for under $50 too
Funnily enough, it's 50 dollars here for the Home 2024 version... though because of the taxes imposed on foreign currency and offshore payments you end up paying 75 or so. Personally tho I went for the subscription option, mostly for the convenience of it allowing me to share my license with five other people with five devices each, plus the 1TB Onedrive for each one. Since it was 35 dollars or so for the year, I guess I could say I got 6 licenses for a total of 30 devices for the price of 6 dollars per license or basically 1 dollar per device, if I really wanted to be flexible with this and stretch it out that much.

This is the beginning of rent-a-windows
Microsoft sort of already does it, I guess, though you basically rent a whole instance in the cloud with a set config of CPU cores/RAM/storage. Business/Enterprise only tho
 
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