Microsoft is basically discontinuing Windows. What will happen, then?
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“ During setup of your new Copilot+ PC, and for each new user, the user can opt into saving snapshots using Recall. If you don’t choose to opt in, it will be off by default and snapshots will not be taken or saved. You can also remove Recall entirely by using the optional features settings in Windows. ”
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I stay away from Microsoft products, both privately and professionally. They make the world a worse place.
>Would you like to enable Recall?
>(Yes), Later
BUT the point remains - MS appears to not want people to run Windows.
In the old days, Windows was welcome on any damn machine you could boot with and Intel compatible CPU.
Windows 11 however has all sorts of restrictions on what it will run on - restrictions primarily designed to sell new computing hardware it seems.
I feel like Microsoft does not want me to use Windows 11.
So they point remains, despite the clickbaity title - Windows 11 ain't for me and Microsoft doesn't seem to want me to run it on all my old machines, so what now?
Wait for SteamOS for general computing?
Try Ubuntu desktop again?
Just stay on Windows 10 till it's deprecated then never run Windows again?
What is clear is that Windows users come last in MIcrosoft's calculations - before that comes Windows OEMs, Windows advertising sales group who put all the crapware and advertisements on Windows, and all Microsoft's other big businesses that have eclipsed Windows in importance such as Azure.
It's strange - MS just doesn't seem to care at all any more about whether you want to run Windows or not.
Steve Ballmer would turn in his grave, except he's alive and well.
It's vastly simplified compared to any other desktop OS, and I appreciate that the simplicity makes it lean and understandable, to beginners or power users alike.
Pretty much everything I did was in the Google ecosystem, and PWAs are well-supported in Chrome, and as a bonus, I can run any Android app natively in the VM, and full-screen! It's fantastic for my astronomy work!
My Thinkpad T580 is 6 years old at this point, and out of warranty, but still performing admirably. When it dies I will wait awhile to replace it with something else, as my Chromebook has taken over the daily duties, and performing great.
I'd say that ChromeOS and Chromebooks are key to Google's enduring presence in our homes and on the Internet. I believe that ChromeOS represents an important foothold in the "non-mobile" market, where users are locked into Chrome but still have generous access to Android apps. ChromeOS is a forward-looking system, under active development, and still experiencing its initial design decisions and unique additions.
Furthermore, Google has made plenty of commitments to long-term support of existing Chromebook hardware. They've also got a significant presence in the educational market. Chromebooks aren't just manufactured with Google badges, but by numerous OEMs: mine is an Acer, for example. Therefore, Google is creating its own ecosystem to rival Windows and macOS. ChromeOS won't be going away.
I find 11 way more stable than 10 ever was. Less bsods and all.
Older stable Windows versions for office work and non-internet hardware, air-gapped away from internet access.
Linux for the internet to concentrate on what it takes to avoid Microsoft's web, once you're more confortable there, then more smoothly migrate away from Windows for office work too.
Hurry up before the new PC's no longer have drivers for the older Windows versions.
Archive everything.
Once you get to a higher bar where people do need to install software, Ubuntu loses that audience (because they wouldn't find the software they expect to)
You have some nice customers! I was lucky to join a company that allowed me to choose linux as OS, the previous company strictly refused. I'm strong on Linux, but I won't lie that sometimes things are pretty rough, even with widely supported distros (Fedora, Kubuntu)
Microsoft ended up supporting Windows XP far, far longer than they expected to or wanted to. As long as people (especially corporate people) need to run Windows on hardware that Windows 11 rejects, Microsoft will extend the Windows 10 EOL date. They'll realize that charging all that for "extended support" will hurt them more than help them, and (mostly) drop it.
It's a little weird that the author didn't bring this up as a possible scenario. I think it's much more likely than any of the others listed. I expect the scenario where Microsoft relaxes the Windows 11 hardware requirements isn't that realistic; they seem to think those hardware requirements are critical for security (regardless if they are or aren't).
Eventually the hardware that Windows 11 doesn't like will age out to the point that Microsoft will actually EOL Windows 10. And the kind of people who will continue to still use that hardware are the kind of people who don't know what security updates are and/or won't care that they aren't getting security updates.
This all feels like a big nothingburger. Worse, the headline is super clickbaity, and I regret clicking it.
Until then it could be like covid, where older cars became more valuable.
Many people might prefer to keep an older PC just so they can keep running Windows 10 until the hardware is not just old, but finally wears out completely.
Kind of like a disease Windows is suffering from, people hope it will get better, but no drug company big enough is working on a cure and there should have been a vaccine against this kind of thing to begin with.
And onward marches the sands of time.
Everyone gets to make their own decisions, I suppose, but let’s all tell the truth about what’s happening here.