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Emon said:

What do you mean, "is there no way that this can be seen as a positive?" Why should it be? Your wording suggests you think we should be forcibly viewing things positively even if they aren't positive.

What is your logic for thinking that there must, by some fundamental necessity, be a positive spin to it? Are you just trying to find a silver lining?

Do you work in PR? Man that was a WEIRD thing to say.

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Nobody’s forcing anyone to think anything - you don’t need to wear a tinfoil hat - mind control isn’t real.

It’s just that all posts seemed to focus on the negatives exclusively, and I thought that maybe Microsoft isn’t all evil, or some dumb nonsense like that. At some point things come to an end - also security updates. If they weren’t advertising that but instead just quietly stopped their support - would that be better? Or if you got a message only a week in advance, so you’d have very little time to act. Would that be better? I don’t think so.