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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I always laugh at, after being in the military and a government employee, things being marketed as military grade. So what, it runs on windows server 2003 and hasn't been in production for 20 years?

[–] mods_are_assholes 7 points 8 months ago

From what little I've seen, there's a divide between old and new tech.

Like how headset visual tracking for attack copters was a thing already back when Nintendo released the Virtual Boy, alongside the fact that there is still equipment in service running software that had to be millennium bug patched.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 8 months ago

My mother-in-law ran an Army reserve center in the 1990s. They were still using DOS once XP came out because the Army wouldn't pay for the upgrade.