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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It was the “end of support” that wasn’t. You literally just go in and click a button answering if you like support to continue one more year and amazingly...support continues another year.


3 posted on 11/06/2025 10:03:39 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

>> You literally just go in and click a button answering if you like support to continue one more year and amazingly...support continues another year.

That was my experience as well. Gives me a year to switch over to Linux; hope I don’t procrastinate too long!


17 posted on 11/06/2025 10:56:19 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Republican Wildcat
"It was the “end of support” that wasn’t. You literally just go in and click a button answering if you like support to continue one more year and amazingly...support continues another year."

Yep. Microsoft's emails kept warning about the "end of support" and offering to extend it for $30 or 1,000 reward points. Those emails never mentioned the button in settings to extend it for free. With one day to go, I clicked the button.

37 posted on 11/07/2025 2:29:45 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Republican Wildcat; Nervous Tick; Tired of Taxes

“...go in and click a button answering if you like support to continue one more year...”
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Where do I find this “button”?


63 posted on 11/07/2025 5:33:20 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Republican Wildcat
It was the “end of support” that wasn’t. You literally just go in and click a button answering if you like support to continue one more year and amazingly...support continues another year.

But that would militate against certain promoters that insist that you do not switch to any one of the 1,000 different Linux distributions then there is something wrong with you. Actually, very few Windows users even search how to install W/11 without TMP, and turn off/disable MS telemetry, and how to make W/11 more like W/7/10..

Those who just use what is handed to them and do not seek customization actually may be more adaptable to Linux. For me, the latter simply does not justify the time and energy to switch to a linux distro (PCLinuxOS being my current favorite, though I do not use proprietary multimedia codecs) and engage in the extensive customization I can obtain in Windows (via third party and reg. files), thank God.

70 posted on 11/07/2025 6:27:39 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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