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: 2) by Reziac on Saturday January 25 2020, @04:40PM (2 children)
So, yer sayin' Munich voters are gullible fools, happy to take any candidate MSFT puts forth?
Actually [eyeing Germany from a safe distance] the gullible fools part wouldn't surprise me.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 26 2020, @01:57AM (1 child)
Yes, I'm saying that voters are gullible fools. In any given place or time, voters are gullible fools. Munich is not unique in that respect. Just look at the US with it's crappy form of two-party elections.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday January 26 2020, @02:40AM
"Democracy: that ultimate triumph of quantity over quality."
-- Peter H. Peel
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.