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Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect (www.techradar.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 54 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm really glad during the pandemic, a bunch of departments in my company focused on getting everyone Linux laptops. That led to a widespread adoption companywide.

I doubt any department is going to get approval to move to Windows 11 and deal with Microsoft's fees.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What office do you use?

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

libre office is great

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

It's not that great, I've recently tried such a piece of abandonware as the Linux version of WordPerfect (never used it before, just digital archaeology), and the fact that you can show any part of the document as text with escape sequences is just wonderful. Not using it cause I need Cyrillic symbols (which doesn't work even with single-byte encodings like ISO8859-5 and KOI8-R, I do have the fonts installed) and UTF-8 (that could even be optional, but no).

But that's about modern formats more than it is about LO. They are too complex and Web-like (inside) for my taste. Everything is better than pre-XML Word formats, of course.

[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Emacs I assume.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I doubt any department is going to get approval to move to Windows 11 and deal with Microsoft's fees.

What fees are you talking about? Genuinely curious because I haven't seen any articles about new or increasing business fees.

[–] Dukeofdummies@kbin.social 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean, Microsoft isn't free. Linux is.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 points 7 months ago

True, it's just that if businesses are already using Windows + Office 365, then it'd just be the usual monthly/yearly cost wouldn't it? Maybe they were just talking about their office specifically though.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are your network, systems and infrastructure managing themselves?

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

We never had windows servers. So there was never a licensing cost there.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Business license. You need to license the OS and get the business version, times however many computers. And we'll need to buy new computers, get the win 11 business, and deal with all the Microsoft bs like office 365 etc.

Or just slap a Linux OS and have it join the rest of the fleet.