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California man sues Microsoft for discontinuing Windows 10 — says company is doing this to “monopolize the generative AI market” (www.tomshardware.com)
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Lawrence Klein, who’s based in Southern California, filed a complaint against Microsoft in the San Diego Superior Court over its plan to discontinue support for Windows 10 by October 14, 2025. According to the Courthouse News Service, Klein owns two Windows 10 laptops, both of which will become obsolete come October. He asserts that Microsoft is making this move “to force its customers to purchase new devices optimized to run Microsoft’s suite of generative artificial intelligence (AI) software such as Copilot, which comes bundled with Windows 11 by default.”

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Okay. Serious question here. How long are they supposed to support it for? Windows 10 came out 10 years ago. To look back during that time:

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - released 4/2016, EOL 4/2021 (5 years)
  • CentOS 7 - released 7/2014, EOL 6/2024 (10 years)
  • Mint 18 - released 6/2016, EOL 4/2021 (5 years)
  • Debian 8 - released 5/2015, Extended EOL 8/2022 (7 years)
  • Fedora 24 - released 6/2016, EOL 8/2017 (1 year)

So with the exception of CentOS, Linux has less time before it EOLs, and if you want you can always move to a newer version, but at some point a newer version may not support older hardware. Case in point 6.15 removed support for 486 chips, which you may argue is old, but someone will say the same thing “it’s still a perfectly usable computer”

[–] redwattlebird 6 points 2 months ago

Before I switched to Mint, my W10 spat out a full screen ad that was telling me to dump my PC and get a new one because support was ending for W10. I clicked on 'maybe later' because there was no other viable option to get it off screen, thinking it was a one off. It was when the ad popped up again 3 days later that I spat the dummy and went into Linux land.

It wasn't about ongoing support. It was about being left alone with my choice and not having my personal computer nagging me every few days to spend money when I didn't need to. I believe this is what most people are angry about.

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