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

Yeah we’re fucked :)

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

*ELO it was a band.

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

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