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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you're still using Windows 10 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

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[–] M500@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There is no way they don’t offer extended support for Windows 10. Many PCs can’t get to windows 11. Imagine all the malware infected machines that will be out there.

[–] punkwalrus@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I worked for a large computer company in the late 90s, early 2000s. When XP came out, they said there would be no site licensing. This meant we had to keep track of license keys for thousands upon thousands of systems, costing millions. This was before KMS or anything.

"Nothing we can do," Microsoft said. "We have no gate key."

Our server farms at the time were 40% Windows NT 4, 55% Sun systems, and 5% Linux. So we said, "okay," and called Red Hat. In a year, our back end was 60% Sun, 35% Linux, and 5% Windows NT. We were already in talks to start switching to Linux workstations for desktops.

"Oh, you mean this gate key," said Microsoft.

Asshats. They lost our server business, but let us use XP with a site license.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I assume eventually they'll drop the UEFI security requirement, which is why 90% of the "can't" cases occur.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uefi isn't the push, the push is tpm 2.0, which I think is a much much larger percentage of "incompatibilities". tpm allows for drm that is much harder to bypass, since the random number generator operates securely in hardware. It's for their benefit not yours.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Precisely why I'm in no rush to "upgrade".

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

My Windows install is still in compatibility mode. It's the sole reason I can't upgrade to 11, not that I want to. I can't be bothered to reinstall Windows on UEFI when there's no point anyway. I'll happily stick to 10.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Microsoft products are all about getting infected with malware. That's the whole point of this company.