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Windows 11 should have been an easy upgrade - Microsoft chose to unleash chaos on us instead
For more than three decades, Microsoft's customers have been able to count on at least 10 years of support for their Windows PCs. That all ended with Windows 11, and the company might never be able to clean up the mess.
The engineers who had been building Windows 11 wanted to release a broad set of compatibility recommendations that discouraged -- but did not prohibit -- upgrades on older PCs that met the hard floor. Blocking those perfectly functional machines from upgrading was rude, it was thoughtless, and it was, from a purely capitalist point of view, an amazingly effective way to alienate a huge proportion of your customer base. And let's be clear: If these requirements are really about security, then why is Microsoft willing to take money from its business customers to allow it to keep delivering updates to the "insecure" older operating system for three full years after the end-of-support date?
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