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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:55PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:55PM (#948578)

    so you buy some closed, evidently obscure, sound chip and it's linux's fault it doesn't work?

  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday January 25 2020, @09:41PM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Saturday January 25 2020, @09:41PM (#948622) Journal
    Up laptops are hardly obscure.
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