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>After giving clear public statements of their future support cycles? Good luck being the lawyer defending that one in a nine-figure dollar lawsuit with a Fortu
by Grishnakh 10y ago
>After giving clear public statements of their future support cycles? Good luck being the lawyer defending that one in a nine-figure dollar lawsuit with a Fortune 100 or ten.
Yeah, so what happens when they pull support for Win7 Home and maybe Pro, and continue it as normal for Enterprise, so that the Fortune 100 companies aren't affected? Home users aren't going to sue MS, and SMBs aren't too likely to either.
Don't forget, MS can claim they don't need to offer support to these smaller users, because they're giving them a free "upgrade" to their latest and greatest! You're right about the F100 companies, but they're a totally different market. MS is still supporting XP for some companies remember; they'd likely do the same (but maybe without any extra cost for a while) for their enterprise customers running W7.
>Now who's joking? Apple owns the high end of the laptop market and has for years.
Not in the corporate space they don't.