Re: Windows 11 ?
Originally Posted by
Tedc
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I suspect that MS will modify the requirements, but, in the meantime, imagine how much money they might make by a high proportion, of the millions of Windows users, buying a new PC to conform!
Get 60, or so, percent of company buyers to upgrade, or buy new PCs, then bring out as miracle fix for those who previously didn't meet the spec!]
It's a no brainer!
I would agree with you except that from what I see, companies most frequently won't upgrade PC's until absolutely necessary and they are rarely early adopters.
Unless necessary as part of their business of course.
If you look in most offices & workplaces, the computers in use tend to be pretty ancient affairs.
No, forget the tinfoil hat stuff.
This is Microsoft responding to a need because they are losing huge amounts of custom to Android, Chrome and other gaining-in-popularity operating systems.
And when the customers for the OS leave, so do the customers for expensive office suites etc. that are ideally-suited to that operating system.
On top of that is a decline in the need for computers, because not only do phones & tablets do most of what a majority of folk want but even TV's increasingly-frequently have smart features which include web browsing.
Long-gone are the days when Microsoft's only real competitor was Apple.
The times they are a-changing and IMHO Microsoft is only trying to cling on.