Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:

The demand for new machines will be high, driving up cost.

The supply of unsupported machines will be high, driving down the used market.

Are you all ready?

  • Dagamant@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yeah, people are just going to keep using it, they just won’t get updates. That means they will be vulnerable to any exploits that come along afterward but most people don’t care. M$ shot everyone in the foot when they decided to limit windows 11 compatibility.

    When windows 7 came out I knew people who stuck with windows xp until they bought a new computer with 10 or 11 on it. The market will get a slight bump from EoL but it isn’t going to force everyone with windows 10 to run out and buy a new computer immediately.

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      6 months ago

      It’s mostly just to force the hands of businesses that will now have to upgrade to stay compliant with security standards

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Which is probably the play. I’d doubt Microsoft really gives a flying fuck about home users buying licenses anymore, since their revenue model for consumer Windows is just ads and data harvesting now anyway.

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      6 months ago

      Your machine needs to be around a decade old to be incompatible I think.

      MS shot itself by being so backwards compatible.

      The primary requirements are TPM, a security feature.