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What kind of business are you in that you need to be able to support these platforms that have been end-of-life for quite some time? Genuine question.

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In my country the Government requires any salesman to have some computer for the sake of sending the info about any sell preferably immediately. I don't know why does they need this, maybe it is making easier for them buying the gold toilets. For example we still have corona-style limitations like no paying with card if the country is bombed somewhere or the businessman risks to be fined. The thing is that nobody wants to buy something more expensive than Pentium 4 or Core2duo especially because most of accounting software still does not support multithreading. So we the businessmen use to mass-buy that cheap hardware, then we install W7 as a good enough OS with no irrigating/pesky/unneeded nanny notifications. The used motherboard if dies it makes no problem, it costs $10. Believe me, the 7 is a perfect OS for self-spying to our Governments and if you want to lobby Rust into this business you have to support W7 somehow.

If that country happens to be Germany, it's to combat tax fraud.

Germany still does not generally require this. It's required if you use an electronic cash register (and only since recently), but if you don't, it's perfectly legal to just tally the money with pen and paper at the end of the business day. It's how all the small fast food restaurants do tax evasion: just scribble half of what you actually sold on the back of a napkin, and that's enough "proof" for the tax authorities.

The current governing coalition has come to an agreement that electronic cash registers will be mandatory starting in 2027, but that law hasn't been passed yet.

In Germany there are no such pastime as shitting gold. BTW Germany is well-known country who shitted its IT revolution in exchange of migrants. Keep working dear Germans, that Algerian guy with no job but with Lambo will not survive without your taxes. (if somebody is isterested, he has a big family but takes all the money from all his daughters because this is his business plan to pet Lambo with no effort).

And how do you get paid when your users that are so broke they're still needlessly on 7/8?

Big assumption there... chances are they would rather keep the money or spend it elsewhere, instead of "unnecessarily" upgrading when things still work

Win10 has got to cost less than a single ransomware attack.

If its medical industry those machines are offline. Same thing with CNC machines still running windows 98 in some workshop. Hell we still use some windows XP laptops here with the networking disabled because places are still running fire alarm panels from the 80s/90s and using serial comms via Virtual Machine is finicky as fuck on a modern laptop.

Win10 is a real expensive cost now, randsomeware is a hypothetical attack in the future.

Maybe the cost of paying the consultant is less than the cost of recertifying.

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