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German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering

posted by Fnord666 on Friday January 24 2020, @12:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-were-told dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Friday January 24 2020, @03:23PM (4 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday January 24 2020, @03:23PM (#947963) Journal

    for the rise of China and them forcing the world to use THEIR operating system, probably based on Linux.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 24 2020, @04:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 24 2020, @04:53PM (#948002)

    Chindows or Chinix for chure.

  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:35PM (2 children)

    by Reziac (2489) on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:35PM (#948597) Homepage

    They couldn't make it either.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux#Closure [wikipedia.org]

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Sunday January 26 2020, @04:35AM (1 child)

      by Gaaark (41) on Sunday January 26 2020, @04:35AM (#948766) Journal

      Using, possibly, Kylin Linux:

      https://www.techradar.com/news/china-to-ditch-all-windows-pcs-by-2022-could-this-be-linuxs-time-to-shine [techradar.com]

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      • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday January 26 2020, @05:43AM

        by Reziac (2489) on Sunday January 26 2020, @05:43AM (#948772) Homepage

        Considering that's about when Microsoft hopes to end Windows on the desktop and shift everything to cloud services (as they first announced at the Win2K launch event, causing the ~1000 IT pros in the audience to all develop identical angry frowns) ... I think there's gonna be a lot of gov't and business (at least if not liability-constrained, as I mention in another post) going... uh, really? and hunting for alternatives...

        ...I be like... if I wanted to be stuck using some cloud OS, I'd just use the public PCs at the library...

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