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Sounds like a them problem if their software won't refuse to update without an active contract. If it keeps working and being able to be updated then it's on them.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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That's the thing, it doesn't do updates. This is just to scare people into paying.
The article says the letter demanded they uninstall updates to the point before their contract ended.
It also says this same letter has been going out to users days after their contracts expired, regardless of whether any updates had been installed and even if the user had migrated to another service.
Exactly, if their software keeps working and allowing updates and they don't know what the end user is doing then it's a them problem. If they didn't bake in telemetrics to know what version each license key is using then it's on them.
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I stupidly bought a VMWare Workstation license when I first got on the Windows 11 train. Bright eyed and bushy tailed and all that rubbish. My experience was such shit that I abandoned it all for Linux and Virtualbox.
Fuck Microsoft, fuck VMWare.
qemu ftw.
I was a happy camper with Hyper-V on server operating systems, was always a PITA on desktop versions though. Wonder if that's changed. (Doubt.)