[tonyhart7]

"Thus forcing unknown millions of people worldwide to upgrade an ENTIRE CPU and Motherboard just for the next version of Windows"

I don't know why you must come conclusion at this point, no one force you to upgrade into next version

as far as I know, when you buy windows 10 license, you tied into certain edition that would work for that edition. nothing mention next OS (in this case windows11) should backward compatible with last edition

if you think 7-8 years is bad, think how much smartphone that not receive update for years, most often that this phone didn't receive update at all

and google and apple literally making new edition of android/ios that break depedency every year

[Moru]

Windows has always been backward compatible with old hardware. There has never been a big problem where you couldn't just upgrade to next version on the same computer. This big jump is not a good one for MS, it is locking out a lot of people that would be customers and are now getting Linux Mint instead. I have several friends that are non-techies and installed Mint on their own without any problems. No support needed even, nothing close to how they need support for Windows. They have dualboot so their old games work on Windows and everything else on Linux. Sooner or later that will be gaming on Linux and Windows never get booted again.

[tonyhart7]

"Windows has always been backward compatible with old hardware."

mac os always have been backward compatible with old intel hardware, nothing changes or stopping you to still use your old intel mac either

"Sooner or later that will be gaming on Linux and Windows never get booted again."

that never gonna happen

[Krssst]

> I don't know why you must come conclusion at this point, no one force you to upgrade into next version

Security updates are necessary and regular Windows 10 users won't get them anymore.