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Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 (lifehacker.com)
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Microsoft is being sued by a man who feels cheated by the current plans to sunset Windows 10. He makes some good points, but I doubt he'll win.

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[–] Xzyer@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's really not hard to find the original statement from Microsoft, which was made by a Microsoft employee.

At the 2015 Ignite conference, Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon stated that Windows 10 would be the "last version of Windows", a statement reflecting the company's intent to apply the software as a service business model to Windows, with new versions and updates to be released over an indefinite period.[68][69][70] In 2021, however, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be succeeded on compatible hardware by Windows 11—and that Windows 10 support will end on October 14, 2025, marking a departure from what had been dubbed "Windows as a service".[71][72]

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Did you even read my comment? I already addressed what you said, and already included the quote.

But I really like how in the text you copied, "Windows 10 is the last version of Windows", a factual statement about the newest version of Windows at the time, was editorialized into "Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows", a statement about the future that was never said.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wish I could upvote you more. So sick of hearing about the "W10 is the last version of Windows" story.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

Got you fam. You get an upvote too.