This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Yes please!
I could use a few more modern tiny/mini/micros to make into useful Linux boxes.
Didn’t they jest release windows 11?
Fuck that and fuck Microslops pick me CEO.
I'm beginning to think this is all a conspiracy to try to kill Windows because Microsoft doesn't want to support a desktop OS anymore.
This is an excuse to build out AI, wreck the consumer electronics market, and sell us all dumb terminals that connect to their AI cloud, so they can monitor and profile everything everyone does (including enterprise)
I've had a similar suspicion actually, but it's also possible they're on some incomprehensible level of incompetence.
Are they loosing money on the OS? I don’t believe for a second that the capitalist company chooses less capital. But, maybe they’ve determined there’s more capital in less market share? What’s your theory, exactly?
Make it infeasible to run Windows on your personal machines by limiting how long you can use the hardware, but conveniently support it as a cloud vm service that is always guaranteed to work with a monthly subscription.
To people in the real world, it sure seems like it. I think the people managing the product (middle management on up) live in their corpo bubble so far from reality, they don't feel/hear or have to deal with actual state of things.
Short term profitability over all else seems to be the mantra.
I'll have plenty of time to try it work, but I stop at 11 for personal use... long time coming but them putting a date on 12 means I now have my date to get off Windows altogether.
God it feels good to be Windows free by this point.
MSFT C Suite:
CPU upgrades? What CPU's? Are the CPU's in the Microcenter with us, Microsoft? Can you show us on the shelf where the mystical CPU's are?
Is the shortage a mirage? Our imagination?
What is the charge? Installing a CPU? A succulent x64 CPU? Gentlemen, this is supply side economics manifest!
And you sir, is your motherboard socket waiting to receive my CPU?
remember when windows 10 was supposed to be the last os they ever made
It was certainly the last one that I voluntarily used.
Dude, they're still struggling with Windows 11 adoption because of the unreasonable requirements of a TPM 2.0 capable motherboard/CPU... and they are asking people to upgrade their CPUs again?
They only started seeing real growth in Windows 11 numbers as of January of this year. Windows 11 finally hit 73% last month while Windows 10 is down to 27%. Linux continues to gain marketshare, and there's no telling if the reason that Win 11 is finally gaining marketshare is from people dumping Windows entirely for other options. Mac and Chromebook shares have been growing as well! It took Microsoft four and a half years from release to break 50% Win 11 adoption and they want to release Win 12 on year five while forcing more upgrades when half the people who got in just upgraded?
This on top of trade wars, actual wars, and an AI arms race that is making buying PC parts obscenely overpriced... and they think people will fucking go for this?
The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds. Even businesses won't want to upgrade this soon after many only just making upgrades to meet Windows 11 requirements just recently.... because businesses are also facing the same increased costs due to the above issues!
god i hope they fuck this up
The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds.
Yes. They are stupid and don't deserve their huge paychecks.
They could've done basically nothing. Maybe security updates. And they would've had a decent brand that kept bringing in money. Their leadership is worse than doing nothing. A dog would make a better ceo.
They're already fucking this up with vibe-coding Windows 11, so if they seriously go all-in on this, Windows 12 will be a bigger disaster than fucking Windows Vista and Windows Millennium Edition combined.
...and frankly, I think they will. They've bet the farm on this AI shit, and they need to force it into everything to justify it's fucking existence even though Copilot is the most dogshit out of all these dogshit generative AI systems.
No, because that was a shitty headline that mischaracterized an employee’s one-off statement and was then held up as gospel truth by the internet.
If you’re not ready to switch to Linux:
Windows 10 Enterprise IoT is supported until 2032, works great, contains almost no bloat, and is free to download and activate.
You can configure just about anything else you want or need using Chris Titus’ Power Shell Windows Utility.
Rufus is simple and easy to use for extracting the ISO to a USB drive, and has built in options for setting up a local account and automatically disabling telemetry options during installation.
Microslop is rabidly, desperately, sprinting-on-fire towards a closed mobile-style system paradigm, frothing at the mouth and glowing radioactive iridescent green with envy at Apple and Google’s silicon to application device and software ecosystem control. They want you to purchase the edge tensor hardware they need to run and train the LLMs and machine learning algorithms that will be used to analyze everything you do on your computer, perform deep learning recognition on every photo, video, and file on your hard drive, and securely export that model to themselves, advertisers, and the government at a premium, paid for by our tax dollars.
They’re burning down their own company to do it, that’s how bad they want it.
Be warned though that some installers will yell at you for not having a "compatible version of Windows". Its rare, but some apps don't like the enterprise editions.
My brother used to use enterprise windows 10 until he started having that vary issue with trying to play COD.
Damn, I guess he can't play the same game that's been rereleased annually for 20 years then huh. What a bummer
Lmfao Microslop stop trying to make Recall and Copilot and AI bullshittery happen. It’s not gonna happen.
I guess I'm no longer ever going to play a video game that runs on Windows. At some point game developers need to realize that Linux is the future of gaming if Windows keeps pulling this shit.
That's what Proton is for.
I have 100 or so steam games. Each one that I've tried (around 20 so far), all of them work perfectly well on my Linux box.
Except for games that use kernel level anti-cheat.
You mean the shitty games? Oh no...
Proton works great. I now play all my windows-"only" games on Linux.
Not out of principle. I'm just lazy. My coding laptop is always within reach and Proton works. The Windows laptop is, like, way over on the other side of the living room and I don't feel like spending the evening disabling more ad shit or ai shit or whatever they did to Windows since I used it last.
Upgrade? In this economy?!?
Me: Using 11 year old PC. Originally rjnning Windows 7. Now running ZorinOS.
I don't particularly like linux, but.....
looks at Windows 10...11.....now 12....
Yeah, fuck that dumpster fire.
