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• RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If it’s forced and also needs a subscription, quite a lot of people will leave for the alternatives.

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  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are more sinister ways to force people to do something than just outright requiring. People seem to have forgotten, or never knew, that time when new DirectX was supported only on Win7 and didn’t work on previous versions mysteriously, but all new games required it. WIndows 7 didn’t see such a huge adoption naturally. Same thing when new Office is released file format changes just enough so that old Office doesn’t support new files, but new Office supports all the formats, so people would end up upgrading. Otherwise majority of people don’t need more than configuring margins, fond sizes and bold.

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But will they though? They should, but will they? I predict only very very very few will.

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  • danque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Time for Linux 2.0

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Linux kernel version 2.0 was released in 1996.

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      • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It can only mean one thing…

        it’s time for Linux 3.0

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  • Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree with what Plopp said. The logical response is “fuck that” and move on to something, ANYTHING, else. But we should know by now that most people will just suck it up because it’s too much effort to learn something new.

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• Nobsi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And 7 before it. And XP before it… Moot point really.

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  • Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t remember XP or 7 being installed automatically on anyone’s PCs. That was what I was referring to in my previous comment. The “upgrade” to 10 and I think 11 happened automatically, without consent, on some people’s PCs.

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    • Nobsi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t remember 11 being installed on my pc automatically. I’ve waited for over a year before i had to click multiple times to get the upgrade to 11.
      I don’t remember 10 being installed automatically over my 7.

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      • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Microsoft was taken to court over forcing the 7->10 upgrade

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