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Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence (www.neowin.net)

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm sure that it's just the marketing dept changing hands over time. Marketing teams are like a Scott's Tots situation: they are just trying to say whatever makes the product numbers look good in the near term. Fulfilling on any promises is a future marketing team's job.

"Of all the empty promises I have made, this one is by far the most generous"

- Michael Scott/Microsoft's marketing team