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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: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday January 25 2020, @11:01PM (1 child)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Saturday January 25 2020, @11:01PM (#948636) Journal

    Anyone email you using gmail? Do you use gmail yourself? Do you watch YouTube - if so, they've fingerprinted your computer and can track everything to do that passes through a server running their analytics. They have built up a pretty complex profile of your interests and activities, and can now go revisit previous data to see what else they missed going back years and years.

    They have probably connected it to your real life identity, and if you're on Android tracked the shit out of you.

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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday January 26 2020, @01:21AM

    by sjames (2882) on Sunday January 26 2020, @01:21AM (#948689) Journal

    That's still not specific to a Linux Desktop.