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Microsoft have 122k employees. Assuming that every one of them takes the upgrade, it uses an extra 61TB of storage. I can buy 61TB of NVMe storage from a high street retailer for under $5000. It's less than half that for a normal SSD. It costs more than that for the electricity to install the updates to 120k people I would bet.

> there's really no way to keep anything secure unless you use a machine that's over 20 years old.

This is nonsense. Security isnt a binary thing, and even if it was, you're still vulnerable to wrench-ops. If your threat model is that you suspect your procedure manufacture have backdoored your CPU, you better be running your own fab, air gapping your machines, and desoldering input ports.

Meanwhile for probably 95% of people and businesses out there, keeping windows up to date, 2FA required, encryption in transit and at rest, and regular tested backups is enough.