Microsoft is warning (reminiding) its Windows 10 users that the Windows
10 EOL is approaching. Given Microsoft's past behavior and that it is
a commercial business, has it made any comments that it will terminate
the Windows 10 O/S software after the last EOL security update? These
days I just don't trust MS to not want to force people using Windows 10
to migrate to a new version whether said user wants to do so or not.
Microsoft is warning (reminiding) its Windows 10 users that the Windows
10 EOL is approaching. Given Microsoft's past behavior and that it is
a commercial business, has it made any comments that it will terminate
the Windows 10 O/S software after the last EOL security update? These
days I just don't trust MS to not want to force people using Windows 10
to migrate to a new version whether said user wants to do so or not.
Microsoft is warning (reminiding) its Windows 10 users that the Windows
10 EOL is approaching. Given Microsoft's past behavior and that it is
a commercial business, has it made any comments that it will terminate
the Windows 10 O/S software after the last EOL security update? These
days I just don't trust MS to not want to force people using Windows 10
to migrate to a new version whether said user wants to do so or not.
The purpose of any Marketing Effort, is to use FUD (Fear Uncertainty
Doubt) to encourage you to spend more money. Whether you do, would
depend on whether the new offering has something the old
(unsupported) offering no longer has.
The purpose of any Marketing Effort, is to use FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) >to encourage you to spend more money. Whether you do, would depend on
whether the new offering has something the old (unsupported) offering
no longer has.
The toggle button was to migrate the device from one backend server to
the newer Exchange server which supported the prior Exchange Active
Sync(old server) and additionally Exchange.
***Note:*** - the size reduction(15 to 5 GB) did not impact M365
Office subscriptions(365 Family has 1TB for the primary subscription
owner and 1TB for each shared MSA with up to 5 shares allowed; Personal(single user subscription) 365 has 1TB for that single owner
user.
The backend server changed, no Hotmail.com accounts were converted to Outlook.com accounts...the domain didn't change. The only things that changed was the backend server, all MSA(Outlook.com, Live.com,
Hotmail.com and MSn.com and 3rd party registered retained the domain
name, and all logon to the web mail UI - which now goes to:
https://outlook.live.com)
Confusing, always!!!! :)
On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 16:09:27 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
The purpose of any Marketing Effort, is to use FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) >> to encourage you to spend more money. Whether you do, would depend on
whether the new offering has something the old (unsupported) offering
no longer has.
And whether the old unsupported offering has something that the new
supported version no longer has -- in my case, the ability to run
older programs that run under MS-DOS.
On 6/6/2024 11:16 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 16:09:27 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
The purpose of any Marketing Effort, is to use FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) >>> to encourage you to spend more money. Whether you do, would depend on
whether the new offering has something the old (unsupported) offering
no longer has.
And whether the old unsupported offering has something that the new
supported version no longer has -- in my case, the ability to run
older programs that run under MS-DOS.
Yes, Win10 would be the last 32-bit support.
You could not do an Upgrade Install of Win11 x64 over top of a Win10 x86 (32bit).
I don't think that would work, and it might not even start to upgrade
when it detects the details.
There may be some amount of surplus equipment at the end of the
Win10 era (Oct 2025) and maybe you can get a machine suited to your
archival activity at that time.
I was looking on Ebay, and my laptop model was for sale for $50.
That's what I mean by "end-of-era" computers.
While VirtualBox allows running older stuff, one thing to be
aware of, is the "tested support" is not as extensive as it once was.
At one time, VirtualBox would be advertised as supporting MSDOS.
You would not have that "promise" today. They might test today,
that the most recent version runs Windows 10. They don't spend time
testing that Win2K still works. And because Win2K tends to break anyway
on VBox, then you definitely would want them to
test that OS for you. Saving you the trouble of it railing on
one core.
While virtualization is interesting, the support of it is less
interesting :-) They tweak some of the OSes to make them work.
When they say they no longer support an OS, then any existing
tweaks might not get tested.
On 6/7/2024 11:44 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
To get it to do what the Win 7 one did I still have to do a lot of
setting up -- for example, how does one set environment variables,
especially PATH?
Start : Run : sysdm.cpl [ Direct path to "System" Control Panel ]
Advanced tab (in the middle)
Environment Variables (bottom right)
System variables, PATH (it seems some of my custom entries are there, like Ghostscript path)
To get it to do what the Win 7 one did I still have to do a lot of
setting up -- for example, how does one set environment variables,
especially PATH?
On 6/7/2024 11:44 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
To get it to do what the Win 7 one did I still have to do a lot of
setting up -- for example, how does one set environment variables,
especially PATH?
Start : Run : sysdm.cpl [ Direct path to "System" Control Panel ]
Advanced tab (in the middle)
Environment Variables (bottom right)
System variables, PATH (it seems some of my custom entries are there, like Ghostscript path)
Microsoft is warning (reminiding) its Windows 10 users that the Windows
10 EOL is approaching. Given Microsoft's past behavior and that it is
a commercial business, has it made any comments that it will terminate
the Windows 10 O/S software after the last EOL security update? These
days I just don't trust MS to not want to force people using Windows 10
to migrate to a new version whether said user wants to do so or not.
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