> upping hardware specs for Windows 11 for no good reason This could very much be the main reason for this transition to succeed this time, more than any ideol

> upping hardware specs for Windows 11 for no good reason This could very much be the main reason for this transition to succeed this time, more than any ideological points. In October 2025 millions of perfectly good computers will become obsolete. Windows 10 reaches end of support and Windows 11 won't work on other CPUs and mainboards without TPM. And everyone will have a choice to either throw them all away and purchase new ones, or to start paying Microsoft a yearly fee for extended support. I don't think we ever saw this kind of forced upgrade with so little benefits for the end user. In 80s and 90s when upgrades were more frequent a new computer was substantially more powerful than the old one and you were very much looking forward to upgrade. Not this time though. If your 10 old computer has SSD, 16+ GB RAM, and 4+ core CPU, for many use cases it will be as powerful as the new computer. I can easily buy a cheaper new computer that will be worse than one of my 10+ year old higher end machines - less storage, less memory, etc. Sure, if I buy higher end it will be much better for video encoding and few more tasks, but for general office use or even development there won't be much difference.