Want to keep getting Windows 10 updates next year? No prices yet for consumers
I bought my "new" laptop just before Windows 11 came out, so it only has TPSv1.2 and does not qualify for Windows 11. I'm certainly not going to throw away a perfectly good laptop, but luckily it will run Linux perfectly well still.
That artificially created requirement for Windows 11 is going to catch an awful lot of people, who will be forced to either buy new hardware, or to stick it out without any updates, or transition to a different OS.
But right now, due to power that consumers give to Microsoft, Microsoft gets to call the shots, and whilst these shots score them lost of profits, it's not going to change.
Apart from one laptop, I've migrated all my computers in the house years ago to Linux. They just keep on updating forever, and my gaming, media streaming, documents, etc are all working just fine.
But it is every user's choice where they want to be. Microsoft cannot dictate to us whilst we have options we can choose from. But it is up to us to act on those choices or not. The first and last thing I do every single day, is to check for software updates, so in my own case I suppose change is more excitement than a chore.
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For businesses, a subscription for Windows 10 Extended Security Updates will be shockingly expensive. For educators, the cost is just a few bucks. But what about consumers?
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