Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs

On 1/18/25 7:08 PM, Joel wrote:

CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 1/18/25 4:08 PM, DFS wrote:

On 1/18/2025 1:07 PM, Joel wrote:

DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
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I reject the Win platform as a dead end.

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Windows will long outlive you and all the other doomsday cola advocates.

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Explain how to keep up with demands on hardware without replacing
motherboard every three years.  "Don't upgrade to Win12" only supports
my point.

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Total absurd bullshit.
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You have NEVER needed to upgrade/replace your mobo every 3 years for a
new version of Windows.
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As I've requested several times, make sure to keep your current hardware
around so I can rub your Linuxy face in it when Win13 installs and runs
just fine on it.

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I have to agree with you here. There was pressure to buy new hardware
every two or three years back in the 90s, but hardware nowadays easily
goes a decade with the original operating system on it. However, Windows
in that time will become unbearably slow for most users since they
usually have no idea how to maintain it. Linux, for its part, will be
just as fast ten years down the line as it was on day one.

  For you to be right for my machine, Win10 would need support till
2031, it's ending this year with an optional paid extension.

Not necessarily:  Win10 came out back in 2015, and your current PC was a license transfer from an older machine.
When was that older PC originally put into service with Win10?
-hh