[MBCook]

Normal people don’t care. That’s why there are still people running 7 or 8 and MS has been trying to convince them for a decade to upgrade, even giving 10 and 11 away.

“If you give up everything you were used to and learn something completely new that may not be quite as good for you as what you have and no one you know can help you with then in five years you might not be forced to do the thing you weren’t going to do anyway!” is not a winning argument.

You have to argue things that help them, NOW. If arguments about what’s better in the future worked everyone would have much much bigger savings accounts.

[cykros]

The one place they do seem to care a little is on Chromebooks, but perhaps that's because Google has been utterly shameless in many cases, turning those into paperweights after only 1-2 years. When it doesn't even last through the 4 years of high school they're issued for, it's starting to become bothersome.

[MBCook]

If it beaks too fast that sticks in people memory. “I just bought this! What a piece of crap. I’m going back to Dell”. That will kill sales.

I had no idea chromebooks were like that.

[nolist_policy]

Chromebooks receive 8 years of updates, 10 years for models released after 2021.