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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:23:13 -0500
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On 1/19/25 11:38 AM, Joel wrote:
> -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
> 

Original context:
 >>>> .... There was pressure to buy new hardware every two
 >>>> or three years back in the 90s, but hardware nowadays easily
 >>>> goes a decade with the original operating system on it.
 >>>> ...
 >>>
 >>> For you to be right for my machine, Win10 would need support...
 >>>
>>> Win10 need[s] support till
>>> 2031, it's ending this year with an optional paid extension.
>>
>> Not necessarily:  Win10 came out back in 2015, and your current PC 
>> was a license transfer from an older machine.
>>
>> When was that older PC originally put into service with Win10?
> 
> 
> Think, power user, is anyone other than Relf's old computer running a
> vintage *build* of Windows 10, since an expert knows it grew bloat-
> wise at least until 20H2.  It would save me from Win11 hell, if it had
> real extended support, but they'll make it short-term.  M$ has
> endorsed GNU/Linux.


Irrelevant to the question posed on lifecycle costs ...

"When was that older PC originally put into service with Win10?"


-hh