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windows 10 will be here at least for another 4 years, by that point those workstations will likely be upgraded
by lousken 5y ago
windows 10 will be here at least for another 4 years, by that point those workstations will likely be upgraded
- CTOSian 5y agoLTSC is our friend...
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- huuuz 5y agoThe next and last windows 10 ltsc release, which will be released soon, will only be supported for five years. (Usually it is ten years)
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoDo we still need to upgrade every x years, in my opinion we've reached quite a plateau. E.g. my 4 year old phone is still fast enough. Mandating an upgrade by obsoleting the OS is going to add to our environmental disaster, the newest IPCC report says probably +1.5 C more by 2040 at current trajectories. I wish influential environmentalists would start shaming Microsoft.
- justryry 5y agoDo we need to? No. Does every large and most small organizations I know do it anyway? Absolutely.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoI'd argue that on the desktop, we reached that plateau years ago. I'm not doing anything on my computer that I couldn't have done on a computer ten years ago. Which isn't to say that modern apps and websites would run well on ten-year-old hardware—but there are equivalent apps and websites that would have run fine. In other words, the only thing you're getting with new hardware software bloat...
- lousken 5y agoWe are talking about workstations, and 4 years ago the best ones were those with ~8cores, maybe more if we consider start of the threadripper era. First gen threadripper had many issues and those were ironed out over the years. Also the performance per core increased a lot so I don't think the progress wasn't as small. I agree that phones that are 4 years old are fine for most of the daily stuff, and even haswell PCs are still perfectly OK for the office, but this segment is a bit different and depending on the use case even earlier updates might be useful (like switching to pcie4/5 etc). btw since I meant 4 years from now it also means that those unsupported workstations are not even new today, they could be running 2+years already, and 6 years upgrade cycle is not that bad
- detaro 5y agoIt's pretty clear IMHO that they are not talking about "workstations" in the "high-end machines for special use cases" here, but about "enterprise desktop PCs".
- lousken 5y agoSure, but in that case it's a) cheaper to replace b) see updated answer - if these will be running for 6+ years at that point, it's mostly ok to upgrade them
- sys_64738 5y agoYep, most desktops nowadays are on 4 year upgrade cycles and laptops are three years. Win11's successor will be along not long after that.