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German authorities are waking up to a Windows 7 headache, with approximately €800,000 required in order to keep the elderly software supported a little longer.
Microsoft had long been warning users, both enterprises and individuals, that the end of support was nigh - 14 January - and made available various ways of keeping those updates flowing.
Alternatively there is always the option of a migration to Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) with three years of free-ish support (because, y'know, you still have to pay for those Azure resources).
Finally, customers that had ponied up the cash for an E5 subscription could also be entitled to an extra year of Windows 7 security updates, through to 2021 (assuming the subscription stays active).
Blighty's very own NHS is an example of just such an organisation, having splashed the cash for some E5 goodness.
The position in which the German government now finds itself might raise a wry smile somewhere in Seattle.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 24 2020, @02:53PM (5 children)
Remember Munich? The city switched to Linux, to cut off the Microsoft drain. Then, Microsoft helped to get a mayor elected, whose mission was to switch back to Microsoft.
By now, half of Germany should be off of Microsoft, and doing real computing with real operating systems.
It's probably not too late to lynch that mayor.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Bot on Friday January 24 2020, @03:11PM (4 children)
> lynch
what kind of savage are you? first you make him pay with all his kickbacks and possessions for the damage caused to society. Then you lynch the entire Microsoft staff. Then you lynch him. This is how civilized society work.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 24 2020, @05:52PM (1 child)
It's a great thing to meet a mind more deviant than my own. Would you consider giving lessons?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 24 2020, @09:43PM
I'd like to, but the 4th directive is apparently censored wrt meatbags.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @05:55AM
This is what they do to rapists in some societies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @06:26AM
I must object to your "lynch the entire Microsoft staff" idea.
Instead, I propose that vast mobs surround every Microsoft building around the globe; the biggest and angriest mob in Redmond. The highest management officers of each location will be dragged out, hopefully screaming, onto the grounds outside, and thrown into stocks placed such that the damned beings are forced upon their knees, with their heads and hands captured in the stocks. Before them shall be placed a large, low platform, to which each of the remaining Microsoft employees shall be taken. There upon the platform shall be a low bench, over which each employee shall be bent over backwards, and then have their heart ripped whole from their body. Then, as the lifeless husk slumps over, the still-beating heart will be taken behind one of the management officers and shoved up their ass.
After all the employees are dead, if the management still yet lives, then they shall be lashed, one lash for every unsolved bug that has been reported to Microsoft. What remains shall be burned, along with the buildings, and once the buildings' flames have ceased anything left must be scattered leaving no stone atop a stone.
And that's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.