Sujet : Re: “End Of 10” Project
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacy alt.comp.os.windows-10Date : 23. Jun 2025, 03:14:54
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:20:49 -0400, Nick Charles wrote:
Why would it stop working? Hardware failures, sure. That can happen to
anything. But the software is not "obsolete". Windows 10 will
continue to run just fine.
Until the hardware breaks. And the vendor won’t (or can’t) provide a
reasonably-priced replacement, but requires you to upgrade to a whole new
model.
For example. My wife works in a research lab. There are several
machines there (Gas chromatography, etc.) that rely on Windows 10 PCs
for control/results/reports. These computers are NOT on the company
network. The only network is between the PC, the machine it is
controlling and a local printer. Thus, no chance of malware infections
and also no critical need to upgrade. These are definitely
"mission-critical business operations".
How long is the expected life of that system? 10 years? 20 years? Did you
lock in a support contract for that length of time, to include upgrades/
fixes to the software as necessary?
If not, why not?
Besides, unless you are talking about web apps, the "mission-critical
business operations" that are currently running on Windows are not going
to run on Linux.
Most of the business world is in the cloud these days. And the cloud is
predominantly Linux.
“End Of 10” Project
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