"or paying for the required license?"
Where was the acceptance of a contract requiring that? Microsoft just gave people a free upgrade.
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Where was the acceptance of a contract requiring that? Microsoft just gave people a free upgrade.
For example look at how many "patch tuesday" update fails there have been... I think it's sometimes a good idea to not always apply new updates immediately for this and other reasons.
And then you’re back to trusting an external third party, just slower and with greater expense.
Waiting for others to hopefully discover targeted security vulnerabilities and only updating after an ad-hoc timeframe if nobody shouts “FIRE!” isn’t a security posture, it’s just terrible patch management.