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Originally Posted by ApK
Sorry Pat, but you just posted a a bunch of your own speculative, possibly ageda-driven, spin.
You conveniently overlooked several important points:
1. That page you link is a wiki page by a contributer from the MS Community forum, not an MS policy statement.
2. About your 5 to 10 year thing, you left out the introductory phrase: "This is still being debated, but the logical conclusion is...:
3. Even in what you posted, there is nothing that says those updates would be FREE for that long, only for the "supported lifetime," which was "still being debated" and is what the author of the article reported as being discussed on those internal MS slides.
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So, it ended up Gordon Kelly was dead wrong, just as I thought he was. In light of recent news from Redmond, not only do I stand by everything I originally said about Kelly, but I am even more convinced now that he is really dense or delusional and/or has some sort of really weird narcissistic agenda going on.
As for that person on the Microsoft blog I quoted, he is still an insider even if he’s not talking officially for the company. And whaddaya know … he was spot on
all the way back in January about what W10 support would be.
At any rate, I’m glad that at least some in the media have started calling out and questioning Kelly’s sanity/agenda too, as shown by the BGR article that wodin linked to. Kelly is basically the only one who’s constantly whining about W10 things that others find to be not a big -- or even minor – deal at all.
I think that 10 years of FREE support (the 5 + 5 model) for W10 should suffice for almost every single user. I’ve never ever used the same computer for 10 years. Most of my laptops last about 4-5 years max before they are retired and recycled or break in some way.
--Pat