remember when windows 10 was supposed to be the last os they ever made

If you’re not ready to switch to Linux:

Windows 10 Enterprise IoT is supported until 2032, works great, contains almost no bloat, and is free to download and activate.

You can configure just about anything else you want or need using Chris Titus’ Power Shell Windows Utility.

Rufus is simple and easy to use for extracting the ISO to a USB drive, and has built in options for setting up a local account and automatically disabling telemetry options during installation.

Microslop is rabidly, desperately, sprinting-on-fire towards a closed mobile-style system paradigm, frothing at the mouth and glowing radioactive iridescent green with envy at Apple and Google’s silicon to application device and software ecosystem control. They want you to purchase the edge tensor hardware they need to run and train the LLMs and machine learning algorithms that will be used to analyze everything you do on your computer, perform deep learning recognition on every photo, video, and file on your hard drive, and securely export that model to themselves, advertisers, and the government at a premium, paid for by our tax dollars.

They’re burning down their own company to do it, that’s how bad they want it.

So they're going to try to get everyone to buy new hardware when there is a shortage of ram and storage and they are ridiculously overpriced.

The timing of this couldn't be worse.

Pass the popcorn.

Me: Using 11 year old PC. Originally rjnning Windows 7. Now running ZorinOS.

I don't particularly like linux, but.....

looks at Windows 10...11.....now 12....

Yeah, fuck that dumpster fire.

Sloperating System

Its not enough for me to see linux do better. Microslop needs to suffer.

One of my 2 PCs already switched to linux because of mandatory TPM 2.0 for windows.

It's like they want us to leave their ecosystem. Requiring hardware changes in the middle of a major component crisis, one that they are in no small part responsible for, is certainly a choice.

I'll take this as a sign to continue converting as many of my friends and family to whichever Linux distro fits them best.

They haven’t even gotten everyone into 11 yet. They are tossing out another OS? Seems, dare I say, sloppy.

How can anyone upgrade to a new PC when there is no Ram or hard disks available? This is a crazy time to try to push that.

Making windows worse, AI, and forced CPU upgrades in this economy? There really is something for everyone to hate here.

Good luck with that shit.

Yes please!

I could use a few more modern tiny/mini/micros to make into useful Linux boxes.

I guess I'm no longer ever going to play a video game that runs on Windows. At some point game developers need to realize that Linux is the future of gaming if Windows keeps pulling this shit.

I'm beginning to think this is all a conspiracy to try to kill Windows because Microsoft doesn't want to support a desktop OS anymore.

Install Linux, Problem Solved.

This is the Year of the Linux Desktop.

I still have clients refusing to buy Office 365 subscriptions and insist on sticking with their old copies of Office 2016. I'd love to see how Microsoft is gonna convince those cheap fucks that this is the correct path forward. This OS is dead.

God it feels good to be Windows free by this point.

For all the people on here quick to mock others for being gullible enough to fall for AI-generated slop, this is embarrassing.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

Well thats a stupid plan. Microsoft has lost their minds with Windows

Quite surprised that they are pushing that, seeing as one of the biggest obstacles for Windows 11 getting adopted was that a lot of the existing hardware didn't support the TPM requirements it put in place.

Doing it again so soon seems like a recipe to make people not want to use 12 at all. After all, Windows 11 works fine for them, why change so soon?

Didn’t they jest release windows 11?

Good, keep killing your own OS and forcing people to alternatives.

I love how short sighted they are.

Linux.

If vibe-coding is wrecking Windows 11 and Office now ... just wait until Windows 12 sees the light of day! Ohhh boy, will that ever be some infinite-monkeys-on-typewriters-shite!

So I've got a wacky conspiracy theory about this and all the hardware shortages, ai datacenters, etc. The tech companies are trying to position themselves for "cloud only computing devices" being the only affordable option for most people. The you'll own nothing and like it model.

CPU upgrades? What CPU's? Are the CPU's in the Microcenter with us, Microsoft? Can you show us on the shelf where the mystical CPU's are?

Is the shortage a mirage? Our imagination?