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by jaywalk 1692 days ago
One developer said it in an interview, and Microsoft never issued a correction. Microsoft never actually marketed it that way, and honestly I'm not sure why anyone even believed that developer at the time.

That being said, Windows 11 is a free upgrade. So aside from just not liking the changes (I personally like most of them) there's not much room to complain about Windows 10 not actually being the last version of Windows.
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dehrmann 1692 days ago
> Windows 11 is a free upgrade.

If your computer is new-ish.

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jaywalk 1692 days ago
Well, yeah. And I think that's ultimately why they bumped it up to 11, because they wanted to drop support for older hardware. Even if Windows 10 was going to be the "last version" of Windows, it would be insane to believe that it would continue to support all hardware forever.

That being said, the cutoff line for Windows 11 CPU support does seem to be a bit higher than necessary. But I don't know all of the reasoning behind why they chose the point that they did.

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anticensor 1689 days ago
Vendor lock-in powered by SecureBoot.
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spicybright 1692 days ago
And even if they did market it like that, why would anyone believe that at face value? When has that ever happened in software?

Like anything, you gotta dig a little deeper if you want know what something actually is.

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