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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: 3, Insightful) by Reziac on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:08PM (2 children)
BINGO! Did they really think Windows (before 8/10, anyway) got where it did by randomizing stuff so it wouldn't be too foolishly consistent?? Yeah, that was what I actually liked about KDE: I didn't have to relearn everything I knew from Windows; I could just tweak a few things and life went on as before. Windows-like? Who cares, so long as it works well, which includes not annoying the crap out of normal users who aren't zealots.
And care to guess what's the first thing I noticed about OSX after setting up that Hackintosh?
The damn scroll wheel is upsidedown. Windows and the whole rest of the known universe goes this direction, so by damn we'll do the opposite. There's no other explanation.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:20PM (1 child)
That explains the hockey puck mouse - they think we're a bunch of hockey pucks.
It can't be hard to reverse the two wires that go to the scroll wheel ... maybe there's a market opportunity for "fixed" ("neutered"? "spayed"?) mice? "Mail in your mouse and we'll send it back with scrolling fixed for $10."
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday January 25 2020, @08:26PM
LOL, I said something like that about the hockey puck mouse that came with my Mac G4 (given to me, wouldn't have paid for that thing.. pretty to look at, but embarrassingly low-end inside) ... one button because we can't count to two, and an 18 inch cord because if it were longer, we might wander away from the computer and get lost!
Mouse rewiring, now there's a market made for Macs :D Given that Hackintosh got a normal PC mouse, it's obviously done in software, and what can be done in software can be undone in software.... maybe it's their new way of forcing you to buy a Mac mouse...
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.