https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqh_40hyGYw&t=118s
Computer manufacturers, in partnership with Microsoft, have sold us computers costing hundreds — if not thousands — of dollars, with the implied expectation that we could use them for as long as we wanted. Yet Microsoft has now decided, seemingly arbitrarily, that we must either discard perfectly good computers or pay $61 per year for continued support. This feels criminal, given that Microsoft was the one selling the operating systems that power those computers.
Microsoft could easily create a version of Windows 11 that runs on relatively recent hardware if it chose to.
Perhaps the free market will eventually produce a viable alternative operating system or independent security software. In the past, there were efforts to develop Windows-compatible versions of Linux, but those projects often faced legal challenges from Microsoft.
Microsoft could easily create a version of Windows 11 that runs on relatively recent hardware if it chose to.
Perhaps the free market will eventually produce a viable alternative operating system or independent security software. In the past, there were efforts to develop Windows-compatible versions of Linux, but those projects often faced legal challenges from Microsoft.
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