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Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Consider that Microsoft will have supported Windows 10 for 10 years as of next year, I will say it had a good run. Considering the longest support cycle for an OS I can find that is even remotely usable as a daily is Slackware 14.1, at 9 years, and support ended for that almost a year ago.