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I’m sure average Joe doesn’t even know what EOL means, or knows when it happens. :)

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Yeah Elastic Orange Llamas will be difficult to deal with but I think Joe can manage.

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*ELO it was a band.

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More than anyone, they knew Mr. Blue Sky.

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Microsoft will let him know in no uncertain terms in order to convince him to pay them again. He will know.

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Paying for Windows? Yeah, no.

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Yeah we’re fucked :)

I liked the suggestion to throw Linux on all of the “losses”

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Software updates will stop and render the possibility of an unsafe system more and more over time. Since there are no updates, if a backdoor is found it won’t be patched.

Besides that you’ll probably be able to use it for a few more years as long as your apps still work

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