Forcing 60% of your customers to buy a new computer to upgrade their operating system, during the largest transfer of wealth from the 99% to the 1% in a century, when people have record low disposable incomes.
It’s a cunning plan, I’m looking forward to see if it pays off while I can still afford popcorn.
Almost as good of an idea as building a desktop OS optimized entirely for touch in a era where a whopping... wait for it... 1% of computers had touchscreen capability.
Genuine question...it seems generally known that malicious groups (both state entities or hackers) have spent considerable effort and resources hoarding day zero exploits. As soon as 10 is out of LTS in October, those groups start turning on their scripts, right?
To me it seems not only possible but nearly certain that there'll be a significant malware/botnet attack in Q4 across Windows 10 devices. Am I missing something?
No they really aren't. Maybe for the average tech enthusiast consumer they are, but the large majority of their customers is actually huge businesses that completely rely on Windows and will absolutely upgrade to Win11. Besides that the average consumer is not informed enough, nor cares to be, to switch to anything else. They will either continue to run unsecured windows 10, or will upgrade to 11 when some guy at best buy explains they have to. Those of us who are savvy enough will switch to linux but for microsoft that is a drop in the bucket, not a major loss at all.
I switched to linux. I'm all for it and very much encourage people to do so. I'm loving the push for gaming support too, so I do hope there's progress there. But ignoring the install base of international corporations is just lying to yourself. Find a significant company that's going to switch all their business PCs to Linux because of Win11 and I will gladly eat my words.
It doesn't need to stop, it needs to speed up and spur the exit. Everything's crashing rn because of the politics, they can call themselves a martyr of the times if they want.