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Microsoft has announced a new "Premium Assurance" plan for Windows Server and SQL Server.
Redmond currently offers five years of Mainstream Support on the aforementioned products, during which new features are added and updates are made for reasons of security or just to fix things up. Next comes five years of extended support, during which the security fixes and functionality tweaks keep flowing.
The new support offering will see bugs rated "critical" or "important" patched for the six-year duration of the Premium Assurance plan.
The outcome of the new plan is that operating systems like Windows Server 2008 R2 will now be supported until the year 2026. SQL Server 2008 can now be supported until 2025.
Microsoft's billing Premium Assurance as a comfort to those running applications that may not be easy to evaporate into a cloud. By offering extended support, Redmond reckons, you can just keep them running without worrying about migration.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Entropy on Tuesday December 13 2016, @12:01AM
How about just support Windows 7, which is apparently the best Microsoft will ever come up with.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @12:34AM
The truth of this is not truly evident until you have to admin a server with the metro interface
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @12:46AM
Interface, changed, can't, adapt, must, shit, pants.
And you wonder why ageism exists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @01:05AM
This interface has not changed, it has died! It is no longer an interface! How do you get to a command line?
E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This interface is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the OS 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-INTERFACE!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218 [youtube.com]
(Score: 1) by Francis on Tuesday December 13 2016, @01:51AM
It's not dead, it's just pining for the fjords.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday December 13 2016, @02:57AM
No one expects the Microsoft Inquisition!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @05:20AM
This interface has not changed, it has died! It is no longer an interface! How do you get to a command line?
Win-X Command Prompt
Any other stupid questions, stupid?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @05:47AM
win-r -> cmd.exe is also acceptable
task manager -> more details -> file -> run new task -> cmd.exe is also acceptable
click on the funny window icon -> command prompt is also acceptable. Right click -> run as administrator and you can have an 'admin' prompt.
explorer (win-e if you are lazy) -> c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe is also acceptable
Most of the 'hate' for win10 is they did the same FUCKING DAMN THING they do on every new version. They moved everything around and renamed a bunch of things..... again. For example the new 'settings' aka control panel stinks in finding anything. The font is too big and wastes too much space. Never mind actually finding what you need. Oh its *in* there somewhere. Just not where you think it would be. Issues like this where they screw up a bunch of peoples wifi just cements the idea MS is doing something wrong.
For the love of God MS hire your QA back.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Tuesday December 13 2016, @03:17PM
The computers in the high school were so locked down, there wasn't even a start menu or taskbar. There was only one window that would allow you to launch office applications. So, to get to the file explorer or cmd.exe we created hyperlinks to them from word documents.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @06:35AM
Microsoft shill of the port bow! Shall I engage proton cannons?
Cap't: Hold fire, commander, we have to wait until we are certain.
But they released Windows 8, and 8.1, and Ten already, sir!
Cap't: OK, fire at will. And with extreme prejudice. Those bastards!!
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Tuesday December 13 2016, @05:39AM
You use a GUI, you heathen square? Powershell is where it's at, dawg. It's even all cool blue and shit.
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(Score: 2) by davester666 on Tuesday December 13 2016, @06:17AM
I wonder if you can get this "Premium Assurance" for XP?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @01:00AM
That title goes to Win2K (and maybe XP SP3). A lot about Win7 reeks of a ill-tested hack job, such as a sheer phantasmagoria of UI related bugs (which of course pale in comparison to the clusterfucks that are 8 and 10).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @04:22AM
2008r2 is the server version of that.