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  • twinnieEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Is there going to be a way to keep using it?

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      Yes, Windows 10 won’t stop working. It just won’t get any support (it actually might if something absolutely disastrous for security happens and they want to avoid the bad press and maybe even protect their customers if the fix isn’t too hard. But I wouldn’t count on it).

      • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        They’ll probably do the same thing with Windows 10 they did with XP…The server software that runs along with Windows (I think with XP it was Server 2003) will continue to get security updates for a couple of years. With XP it was a quick registry alteration that continued security updates until 2016 or 17.

        • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Yes, absolutely. Server 2016 and especially 2022 will be supported for some more years.

          Server 2025 isn’t even out yet.

          I doubt it will be that easy to get more support on win 10 though.

          • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Thanks for correcting the Server version for me…that piece of shit company was still using Microsoft 2003…