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Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence (www.neowin.net)

submitted 4 days ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] anonymous111@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

[Serious question] Did Microsoft need to fundamentally change something, and that is why they back tracked on their Win10 evergreen promise? Or is this just a cash grab?

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

They started requiring the use of motherboards with a TPM. Which is compete and utter bullshit because you need to disable the chip to dual-boot, yet Windows 11 will run for several months at a time with the chip disabled before it complains and forces you to temporarily turn it back on again. So requiring it for "security" is just an excuse to force you to buy new hardware.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm sure that it's just the marketing dept changing hands over time. Marketing teams are like a Scott's Tots situation: they are just trying to say whatever makes the product numbers look good in the near term. Fulfilling on any promises is a future marketing team's job.

"Of all the empty promises I have made, this one is by far the most generous"

- Michael Scott/Microsoft's marketing team

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Microsoft has done this with every windows they've made. After the support period is over, you can pay for additional for a few years to help you transition. This one is so loud because windows 11 was such a privacy bait and switch.

Windows 11 is basically Windows 10, internally it hasn't changed names. They have to have an external trade name for it or people won't realize they're "behind."

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

...can i reposition my taskbar?..no?..then it's not the f*cking same...

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I wish that the only problem I had with windows 11 was that I couldn't reposition the taskbar.