Not only that, they used it as a way to have offices upgrade to Windows 11 for the never specified reason of “cyber security” which is where most of their sales come from. The company I work for just had to replace 15 computers at the start of the year and now half of the older software we use doesn’t work anymore. Not only that but we were using Office 2019 with a perpetual license that they invalidated so now we have to get Microsoft 365
Same here, now we have to replace countless testing PCs because they don’t have TPM 2. In our case migrating the software wasn’t that difficult, but still a shame to throw out perfectly good hardware. And due to paranoid internal regulations, the PCs are to be fully shredded as well…
Yeah I asked my boss if I could take one home and turn it into a Linux machine for testing and he said the same thing. He even wanted photo evidence that they were destroyed.
They already did it for Mac but from what I’ve been told by our IT guy that it’ll be all of Office 2019 here pretty soon. Take it with a grain of salt because the IT guy might just be covering his bases before something gets fucked up and he gets blamed for it.
I’ve just read they ended support and won’t be providing security updates, so given how quickly new vulnerabilities are being discovered I guess a business can’t keep a known vulnerability on the network.
Not only that, they used it as a way to have offices upgrade to Windows 11 for the never specified reason of “cyber security” which is where most of their sales come from. The company I work for just had to replace 15 computers at the start of the year and now half of the older software we use doesn’t work anymore. Not only that but we were using Office 2019 with a perpetual license that they invalidated so now we have to get Microsoft 365
Same here, now we have to replace countless testing PCs because they don’t have TPM 2. In our case migrating the software wasn’t that difficult, but still a shame to throw out perfectly good hardware. And due to paranoid internal regulations, the PCs are to be fully shredded as well…
Yeah I asked my boss if I could take one home and turn it into a Linux machine for testing and he said the same thing. He even wanted photo evidence that they were destroyed.
Why not just destroy the drives? The mobo, cpu, ram, and PSU should be ok to reuse.
The other side of this is anyone who can’t afford a computer, may use your software and you can’t really know if it works without tpm2.
They invalidated a perpetual licence? How?
Greedily
They already did it for Mac but from what I’ve been told by our IT guy that it’ll be all of Office 2019 here pretty soon. Take it with a grain of salt because the IT guy might just be covering his bases before something gets fucked up and he gets blamed for it.
I’ve just read they ended support and won’t be providing security updates, so given how quickly new vulnerabilities are being discovered I guess a business can’t keep a known vulnerability on the network.