By looking at data from statcounter, both windows 7 and xp had dropped support when they were at around 3% and 0,5% of global usage, respectively. This time, Microsoft plans to drop support for windows 10 next year, but it's still on 67% of usage. Either I'm missing something here, or they're going a very weird route...
FWIW W10 Enterprise LTSC is good until 2032
My father in law has Windows 7 machines that he uses for scientific work that he refuses to update. His solution is to prevent them from connecting to the internet. Unfortunately not willing to try modern Linux.
That's a valid use case though. At my work we had machines running XP up until a couple years ago because they were purpose built and weren't connected to the internet. There was no reason to upgrade until the entire tool was upgraded.
Good thing there a myriad of other Linux distros that run everything 90% of home users need.
Yes. But to be fair they would have ended up there anyway.
I've got a computer with a copy of XP on it that still runs. Not connected to the Internet anymore, but it still functions as a computer otherwise.
I'm not defending Microsoft here but, the problem in this case isn't Microsoft, there's no reason a person can't educate themselves enough to move away from Windows. If you have access to a PC, you more than likely have access to the internet and there's no shortage of information online.
Yes what Microsoft is doing is negligent. But the consumer can't be completely blameless.
"I'm not defending rapists but there's no reason women can't educate themselves on how to make it so they're less likely to be raped.
Yes what rapists are doing is bad. But the person being raped can’t be completely blameless."
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