Microsoft, doing it’s part to make the world a better place.

  • Ech@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Anyone who does that can make bank.

    See, the key flaw in your plan is expecting companies to shell out to upgrade their systems. Putting aside organizations who’s infrastructure can’t realistically transfer to a new system without scrapping it entirely, pretty much every business will run their systems until they have literally no other choice (ie it is functionally unusable/affecting sales) instead of “losing money” upgrading. MS stopping updates won’t push them over that line, at least not for a while.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      … pretty much every business will run their systems until

      Cousin Vinny gives them a little taste of ransomware and reminds them your upgrade plan is actually a great deal

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        8 months ago

        Meh, ransomware won’t really drive an upgrade plan. That’s what backup is for.

        Any business incompetent enough to get owned by ransomware without a recovery plan isn’t exactly the type with $ to spare for a migration.

      • Ech@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        I mean, yeah, if ethics are no barrier, you could probably make it work, hah. That said, there are much better money makers at that point than being tech support for businesses to switch to Linux.