EldritchFeminity comments on Microsoft officially recommends a new PC and OneDrive to update to Windows 11

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fixed it for you:

Company renders 60%+ of computers running current software incapable of running new software due to niche hardware requirement, abruptly ends support for current version next year, and tells users to throw away their computers and buy new ones.

Oh, and they're promoting their cloud storage option. Which may or may not have anything to do with their data harvesting? I don't really know on that one.

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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

"Abrupt" and "current" are pretty generous for windows 10 tbh. This has been a known deadline for several years at this point, and windows 11 has been out since 2021.

Absolutely fuck microsoft with a cactus, but this is hardly new or surprising at this point.

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

By "abrupt," I mean that Windows 7 ended service updates just last year, and Windows 10 will end next year. And by "current," I mean that Windows 11 overtook 7 as the second most used version of Windows in 2022.

We've known that they're ending support for 10 next year for a few years, but that end of life timeline is very short compared to previous versions of Windows. If 10 had the same end of life timeline as 7, we'd be seeing service updates for 10 ending in 2030. And 11 may be the newest version of Windows, but it is by all means not the most used version and is most likely not the version currently being used by most people that this article is relevant to.

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