[detritus]

I get the impression that a load of people are preparing to jump ship once Win10's sundowned and they're faced with having to get rid of a perfectly usable computer to install Win11. I know I am, loathe as I am to move over to Linux, but Microsoft's making its own bed and continuing on its quest to alienate long-term users with 'peculiar' interface and OS changes.

That, Mac and Mobile ownership and I do have to wonder what MS's long-term strategy to avoid pissing away Windows Desktop users is, because I can't see it.

[cesarb]

> I get the impression that a load of people are preparing to jump ship once Win10's sundowned and they're faced with having to get rid of a perfectly usable computer to install Win11.

In my opinion, what will most likely happen is the same thing that happened when Windows XP was retired: nothing at all, people just kept running the same Windows XP they had already installed. That is, people will just keep Windows 10, not caring that Microsoft does not care about it anymore. And, for them, it will work even better, since without constant updates, Windows 10 will become more stable (as in: not changing all the time, not having random automated reboots due to updates, etc).

(We might be concerned that, without software updates, the security bogeyman will catch and eat us, but most normal people don't worry about that.)

[mschuster91]

> I do have to wonder what MS's long-term strategy to avoid pissing away Windows Desktop users is, because I can't see it.

Give private users up because you can't extract money from them, but keep milking Office 365, governments and enterprises that Just Can't move away from Windows due to decades of legacy garbage.