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   mikiem2
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   zdnet[.]com/article/is-windows-10-too-popular-for-its-own-good/

   My own take that I've posted previously, is that Microsoft would not want [maybe desperately] the negative PR from sending maybe a billion PCs & laptops to the world's landfills. IMHO they'd have to come up with some potential solution. Ed Bott's take is that instead of tossing their PCs & laptops in the trash, a huge number of users will just keep using them as long as they still work. Without security updates, we could see a repeat of the chaos & damage caused by WannaCry to all those Win7 devices that lost support 3 years earlier. He feels *That* would be the PR hit Microsoft would be [desperately] unwilling to suffer. As Ed points out, Microsoft did extend support on XP, and on Win7, though only for corp users that time, so there's precedent. And when XP & Win7 reached EOL, in most cases it was no big deal to upgrade to Win10. While Win11 would *probably* run on that older hardware, most people would not be willing &/or able to use one of the hacks that allow Win11 to install.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   mikiem2
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   zdnet[.]com/article/heres-why-windows-pcs-are-only-going-to-get-more-annoying/

   Microsoft was recently in court, fighting the US FTC, and that meant some internal docs were released to the public. Bott spent time going through that stuff, finding that Microsoft is focused on increasing the revenue streams from Windows, in part to make up for declining PC/laptop sales. One of their strategies is integrating additional services -- added revenue streams -- into Windows 11, e.g., "... with the messy Windows 11 Widgets feature, which includes news headlines and ads from Microsoft's advertising network as an unremovable option."

   That got me thinking -- and this is purely speculation on my part... around 3/4 of the billion+ Windows devices out there are running Win10 -- Microsoft is only able to try and tap into these new revenue streams on 1/4 of all the Windows PCs and laptops out there. With the current economic trends plus Win11's just general lack of appeal & popularity, Microsoft cannot hope that all those Win10 users are going to embrace Win11 [or Win12] in the next 2 years. A new version of Windows for home use would let Microsoft continue to promote Win11 [& probably 12] for their enhanced security in a corporate environment, without having to back track and say that the stricter hardware requirements really aren't necessary. While I haven't seen any figures on how many home users have enabled Windows VBS for greater security [Bing chat doesn't know either], I'd bet 90%, maybe more have it turned off, so a Windows version without Win11's hardware requirements for VBS would change the security landscape very little, if at all. Most importantly, from Microsoft's point of view, a new version of Windows for home users would allow them to integrate those added revenue streams into the design.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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