2025-10-16 01:09 UTC
@jjesse@infosec.exchange @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social The correct analogy would be if Apple and Samsung decided to cut off security updates for old devices to try and force people to upgrade their phones.
Don't get me wrong, the annual upgrade cycle and the perceived obsolescence it propagates is bad... But refusing to fix critical security vulnerabilities for hundreds of millions of computers in the hope that those people will upgrade to Windows 11 is far worse.
And remember, Win10 was advertised as 'the last version of windows' by Microsoft a decade ago, so people bought it expecting it to continue to be updated.
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows
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@jjesse@infosec.exchange 2025-10-16 16:42
@sy@mastodon.nz @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social Kinda like OSX was the last version? Not trying to sound lke a shill here, but I struggle to understand the problems. Samsung supports their devices for like 7 years? We've had 10 years of Windows 10