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So for US users, it’s really not free if you don’t have Microsoft’s backup service or Microsoft Rewards points.
Grow a pair and go back to XP.
I’m not going into the Windows 11 debate...security...data collection and what not. BUT you can get Windows 11 pro, Microsoft office and other Microsoft products downloaded dirt cheap and with legit activation keys if you want.
Loading Ubuntu soon...
So if you voluntarily give them your data, they won’t force you to upgrade to the operating system that gives it to them automatically.
Microsoft ruined Windows 11 with needless changes to Windows Explorer (can barely see the translucent icons and little to no contrast), Right-click menu system has a fixed height (no longer expands to display ALL the menus), the calendar control no longer displays the clock above or to the right, and the Start button behaves differently, etc. The GUI is total garbage. Windows 11 is worse than Windows 10, Microsoft decided to regress the User Interface with mediocre Indian programmers. /spit
Bought a new laptop a couple of years ago. Microsoft sucks. I can’t get anything to work right.
Gave up. Even my camera won’t work. Hardware, software? Don’t know.
I had to dig to find Excel.
Pretty much gave up on spreadsheets since I only did a checkbook. I was an accountant and can’t give up reconciliations. Need to get over it. Can do it online.
All of my important stuff in cloud backed up.
Insulting customers is not the best policy to keep them!
The article states that 650 million people are still using Windows 10 worldwide. Most other reference sites say that more than 700 million computers are still using Windows 10. The number is likely higher than that.
I was wondering how in all these areas where the populations have less disposable income than even the poorest regions of the United States... how were they going to be able to or willing to upgrade their hardware. This extension is good news... for them and people here.
I already have all of our Windows 10 computers running Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 which will get security updates until 2032. If this forum is any indication 99% of users here are not willing to go this route, believing that it is either too much trouble, or too difficult for them to accomplish.
Every computer that we own is already associated with a Microsoft Account and would have qualified for this extension. So, I guess that I blinked first and now the money I spent and encouraged others to spend on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 licenses was basically not necessary. So Whoopie!!!
“addressing advocacy group concerns about forced upgrades.”
At least someone is getting off their butts and voicing opposition! Everyone was going to just let MS force them to buy a whole new computer. If their product requires a whole new computer to use it then THEY should have to pay for it. In no way should a product cause an ADDITIONAL financial hardship for their customers.
I will learn to use the Mac a neighbor gave me.
Please relay this to your lists with your thoughts on whether it’s a boon, a trap or another good reason to go Linux.
Somewhere, somehow, they are monetizing YOU.
I wish Linux could natively run Photoshop and other Adobe software.
“US users can get free updates by uploading profiles to Microsoft’s backup service...”
What does this mean?