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I don't think there's anything going on here other than general corporate ham-fisted-ness. * Microsoft believes the improvements in windows 11 provide genuine
by xmodem 2y ago
I don't think there's anything going on here other than general corporate ham-fisted-ness.
* Microsoft believes the improvements in windows 11 provide genuine benefit to their users.
* Microsoft doesn't want to maintain their older OS forever.
What we are seeing play out however is that the consumer / small business market either does not understand or does not care about those benefits. I don't see any viable end-state for this other than Microsoft relaxing the requirements for Windows 11 or extending the end-of-support date for Windows 10. Based on this action my money is on the latter.
- smw 2y agoWouldn't disallowing updates to Win 11 be the opposite of a logical plan if your goal was to get people upgraded to Win 11?
- butlike 2y ago"Well you see..." <starts waving hands around wildly> "If you debase your current OS, you PRIME people for the next OS, Win13!" <speech devolves into gibberish at this point>
- hparadiz 2y agoThe secondary goal is lowering support costs. Less hardware to support does that.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoSubstantially the entirety of the legacy hardware support cost is for accessories, i.e. PCIe cards and USB devices. All of that still exists and people will continue to expect to plug their existing devices into their new PC and have them work.
- xmodem 2y agoDepends why you want to get users upgraded. If you want your users to be upgraded so they have access to security improvements, and those security improvements require TPM 2.0 or whatever, then allowing upgrades on older systems without TPM 2.0 rather undermines the point of getting those users upgraded.