What incentive would they have? What competition is there?
They would have no incentive of course. A Win11 system with the TPM turned off would be infected with malware straight away.
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Brkdncr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What incentive would they have? What competition is there?
jaidyn999@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
You haven’t used Windows in at least a decade, have you?
Windows 10 and 11 come by default with Defender, which is one of the best anti-viruses on the block. And it is always enabled unless you install a different AV.
Adequately_Insane@lemmy.world 11 months ago
From business standpoint, it simply bleeds you potential profits. If tens of percents skimp on two of your OS iterations in a row and keep windows 10 (which most of were “free” upgrades from Win 7 to begin with) then you are losing lot of revenue in a long run. I possibly see myself using Win 10 well into 2026/2027 when my PC is due for complete replacement.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You make it sound like MS cares about home users at all. MS makes money off business licensing. Forcing businesses to dump old equipment is a big win for them.
It’s not like the people that aren’t upgrading were making them any money anyways. MS doesn’t care about you or the 10’s of people that decide to not upgrade.
beerclue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Businesses swap hardware every 2-4 years anyway, for support or warranty reasons.
jodanlime@midwest.social 11 months ago
My company shoots for 5 year life on desktops, 3 on laptops. At that mark we evaluate if the machine is still supported and doing the job it needs to do.
If either of those things are not true then we replace the unit.
Smaller companies that I have worked for tried to stretch most hardware to double that, but it was always a bad idea imo.
superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Microsoft doesn’t make their money selling to consumers, they make their money selling to businesses. Thats why you don’t really need a Windows license, and why the OS is filled to the brim with garbage
otter@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I think they will rethink things only if it’s cutting into the profits enough. Unfortunately, most people won’t understand the issue and just buy something new if they can. Of those that didn’t upgrade, a chunk might also be people who can’t upgrade because of compatibility reasons (ex. Lots of healthcare providers only RECENTLY switched to Windows 10). The remaining portion might just use Linux.
Overall they get more out of keeping the requirement unfortunately?
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 11 months ago
I don’t think most people would buy a new computer if the OS cannot upgrade. Average Joe can’t afford that, Joe would rather stay on an EOL system and hope everything is alright.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It depends on the country you live in. A computer isn’t such a big expense in some countries and people will just drop 500$ for a new computer without thinking about it.