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Quite surprised that they are pushing that, seeing as one of the biggest obstacles for Windows 11 getting adopted was that a lot of the existing hardware didn't support the TPM requirements it put in place.

Doing it again so soon seems like a recipe to make people not want to use 12 at all. After all, Windows 11 works fine for them, why change so soon?

Install Linux, Problem Solved.

This is the Year of the Linux Desktop.

Making windows worse, AI, and forced CPU upgrades in this economy? There really is something for everyone to hate here.

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.

It’s not clear whether Windows 12 will welcome any non-NPU processors. More likely, PCs that don’t meet its system requirements will lose some functionality.

They will lose some functionality, only if we accept that the slop features meet the definition of what makes a piece of functionality. They seem to not function quite a lot still.

Yes please!

I could use a few more modern tiny/mini/micros to make into useful Linux boxes.

However, newer processors with dedicated Neural Processing Units (NPUs) reduce strain on cloud servers and GPUs. As a result, PCWorld believes that CPUs, including Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen AI chips that support 40 TOPS or more, will become mandatory

in other words, your pc will be doing ai shit for someone else's pc while you are idle

mAIcroSlop 12

After buyers invested in Windows 11 PCs, Microsoft may find it difficult to encourage early adoption. The motivation now is not security-related, but rather mandating previously optional AI-based features [....] Consumers may also not welcome rumored subscription-based plans for the OS. Still, the report suggests that additional costs are related to an improved Windows 365 cloud-based service [....]

Windows is a mandatory AI driven "" os "" that's leasing its features from cloud platforms. Sounds like corporate setups for home computers

No, I don't think I wil.

Sloppy slop MicroSloppitySlop

God it feels good to be Windows free by this point.

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.

No it will force operating system upgrades, as people switch to Macos or Linux

Scuz me, I'm gonna go hug all my Linux boxes right now

Didn’t they jest release windows 11?

Sounds like a sound plan Microslop!!!

I know Lemmy is a Linux echo chamber. But also, I feel like people did actually managed to move to alternative OSes or stay on Win10 cause they were fed up with NoPilot on win11.

Also, once Steam Machine is released, that probably will boost migration to the skies.

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.

If they do this, they are going to be laughed out of the room. But then they will announce end of life for Win11 and everyone will stop asking questions and move anyway because "Linux scary".

I hate reality.

If vibe-coding is wrecking Windows 11 and Office now ... just wait until Windows 12 sees the light of day! Ohhh boy, will that ever be some infinite-monkeys-on-typewriters-shite!

Good luck with that shit.