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Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? (self.technology)

submitted 7 months ago by Brkdncr to c/technology

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Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:

The demand for new machines will be high, driving up cost.

The supply of unsupported machines will be high, driving down the used market.

Are you all ready?

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[–] Dagamant 86 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, people are just going to keep using it, they just won’t get updates. That means they will be vulnerable to any exploits that come along afterward but most people don’t care. M$ shot everyone in the foot when they decided to limit windows 11 compatibility.

When windows 7 came out I knew people who stuck with windows xp until they bought a new computer with 10 or 11 on it. The market will get a slight bump from EoL but it isn’t going to force everyone with windows 10 to run out and buy a new computer immediately.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's mostly just to force the hands of businesses that will now have to upgrade to stay compliant with security standards

[–] dual_sport_dork 10 points 7 months ago

Which is probably the play. I'd doubt Microsoft really gives a flying fuck about home users buying licenses anymore, since their revenue model for consumer Windows is just ads and data harvesting now anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

A few months back we just upgraded some school computers from Windows XP to Windows 7, so that checks out. They can barely run that anyway and get almost no use.

[–] Brkdncr 1 points 7 months ago

Your machine needs to be around a decade old to be incompatible I think.

MS shot itself by being so backwards compatible.

The primary requirements are TPM, a security feature.