Posted on 06/28/2026 7:37:14 PM PDT by ducttape45
The transcript from the video would be too long to post here, but the gist of the video is about how Microsoft is extending the ESU program until Oct 2027, and maybe even into 2028.
I thought maybe folks here would want to know because it makes getting new hardware to support Windows 11 unnecessary as long your IT device still runs good and has Windows 10, like mine. I was going to put together a system to dual boot W11 and Linux but I'm putting that off for now.
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Been using Win 11 laptops for a couple years - been leaving an old Win 10 desktop box plugged in to keep the BIOS battery charged in case I decide to start playing with LINUX.
I am currently on the best desktop computer I have ever had and I got an entire system (monitor/mouse/keyboard/computer) for $171.00 delivered to my front door. For what it costs to purchase Windows 11 alone from Microsoft my renewed Dell 2016 7040 came with 1TB HDD and 16GB RAM with official Windows 11 PRO. This came from an American company that has figured out how to obtain discarded older machines and update the motherboard components to have a machine that can hang with the best of the ones that go for thousands of dollars. Pro Teck is out of Michigan or Pennsylvania (I forget) and I have one game (a P2P) that is a hog for RAM and graphics that has always lagged or Froze on every computer I have had in the past 30 years. This one flies and I can’t say enough good things about this line of products (refurbished/renewed) older workhorse computers/Monitors. The keyboard and mouse were new in the original cartons...low end but still good back ups. I bought via Amazon so they back this up along with the company that actually does the work right on American soil. Jus’sayin?
52 week high 555.45 October 28, 2025.
By June 25, 2026 it had dropped to 349.20
That might be the kind of returns that you like.
Those are the kind of returns that should cause shareholders to question the current board.
Years ago I bought a laptop with Windows 7 on it! I liked it! Several years later they wanted me to upgrade to Windows 11, constantly requesting I upgrade. “No problems to do so!”
So I did. it wiped out some great programs and downloaded everything in DANISH. I live in the middle of the US and do not speak or read Danish.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates?r=1
Above from Microsoft directly.
“That might be the kind of returns that you like.”
24% annual return over last ten years.
Up 60% over last three years.
You can officially keep Windows 10 as long as you want. They just aren’t updating it.
Technically no. You can keep running it forever. BUT, other software you run on there will stop updating (Chrome stopped updating on older versions of 10 like 2 years ago), and eventually that makes problems (websites coded to use new features that are only in browsers that won’t install on your OS). So at some point, depending on where you go on the internet or software you use, you might have to. But until then ride it out. Changing computers sucks.
It doesn’t matter if gains over basis are over 1000% over a long period of time. What matters is recent performance, which has been terrible, and reflects management’s current abilities and corporate direction. They bet big on AI, and it shows in stock performance.
Intel’s performance was terrible until current management took over and turned things around. Microsoft needs someone to turn it around.
“What matters is recent performance, which has been terrible, and reflects management’s current abilities and corporate direction. They bet big on AI, and it shows in stock performance.”
NVDA down 20% in less than two months. Kick the management out. Obviously they are incompetent and worthless.
Sounds good to me. Another company that went all-in on AI.
At least Adobe was able to come up with a different bad business model, although they hyped AI as well.
“Sounds good to me. Another company that went all-in on AI.”
Up 400% in last three years and you want to dump management?
24% annual return over the last ten years ...
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Sure... but most of that gain was in the 2016 ($53) to 2021 period. In December 2021, the stock hit $346... it is only $369 today after falling from its high of $525 in October.
Nice of you to cheery pick a peak while ignoring the exponential growth.
if anyone who has windows wants to easily try linux, you can start admin powershell and type WSL —install
Restart your computer when prompted.
Upon rebooting, the installation will finalize and prompt you to create a new Linux username and password
By default, this installs Ubuntu, but to view and install other Linux distributions, run wsl —list —online.
Thanks
BFL
I don’t like Windows 11. I move my taskbars to the top of my screen, to not interfere when I remote into a clients computer for troubleshooting and diagnosis, so they don’t clash/interfere with each other.
That’s not possible in Windows 11.
That’s just a basic reason why - but the cloud management of Windows 11 and inherent security issues with that are some others.
I don’t have the option. The OS for me is nothing. It is my engineering software that dictates what I have. I would love to dump windows. But saving $100 on the OS when I spend $20k for software makes the decision easy.
I was gonna do something like that. Then I thought about running W10 in a virtual box in Linux. I’ve been running a dual boot Windows and Linux. I’m just gonna run W10 and that’s it now on a newer pc I’m building.
That works too. I did it mainly just to do it.
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