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Windows 10 EOL PSA (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For real. I'm genuinely trying to grasp why. Is it seriously just so they can require secure boot and then say Windows 11 is secure from ransomware even though that's a feature of the motherboard and not the OS?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

They have added so much ad stuff and other garbage that the OS is slowing down, to combat the user perception that the OS is slow they have increased the hardware requirement.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The home-user PC market has been hit HARD by smartphones and tablets. Suburban families no longer have a desktop in a home office plus a laptop for each member of the family. They may have a laptop, and it's probably a Mac.

This decision is too make people buy new devices or upgrade to an OS that has a lot more tracking built in.

Microsoft is pressing AI and other data-scraping tech hard, but they're necessarily going to have to have enterprise and government licenses that allow admins to block those features for legal and security reasons.

So they desperately need new home users they can data-mine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I see I sideload of Gentleman Agreement with the hardware vendors here:

  • Hardware Vendors : "Oh No, The Market is Slowing Down!"
  • Microsoft: "Hold My Beer, it's Payback Time"

Everyone wins. Well, the usual suspects win as usual. The environment and the customer can go kiss Mr Gates and Mr Dell's asses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Windows 10 can't take screenshots at will...

That they will admit, at least.