[karlgkk]

> for no technical reason whatsoever

Bold of you to state that without anything to back up your claim.

Maybe it’s true, maybe it isn’t, but you shouldn’t state it as fact unless you have information backing it up

[swiftcoder]

Name one feature of Windows 11 that could be so mandatory to a web app inside an electron shell, that it couldn't run on windows 10?

[flomo]

A big feature for Microsoft is you have to pay them lots of money to still run supported Windows 10. Are you paying Intuit too? Probably not.

I say again this is really a filter against "high support" customers because most of them are not technical and running derelict setups.

[danaris]

That's not a technical reason.

[flomo]

Calls to tech support are by accounting defintion. So that makes it easy to draw the line somewhere, and cut off groups of negative-value customers. Its 2026 and times are tough baby.

[swiftcoder]

> Its 2026 and times are tough baby

Tough even for firms that have regulatory capture in a ~$48 billion market?

[flomo]

You know it as well as I, no gotcha here buddy.

It's getting tough for shitters with some old ass legacy PC who depend on online services. Hopefully they were smart enough to understand they were living on borrowed time.

edit, also there are government subsided smartphones if you need one.

[danaris]

I mean, sure; you can come up with some kind of justification to call just about anything "a technical reason".

But there's no genuinely technical reason—one you don't have to twist yourself into pretzels over—that fairly ordinary software, working fine on Win11, would not work on Win10.

[flomo]

Easy question because you need to evaluate every dependency for Win10 compatibility, Win10 bugs that MS fixed in Win11, running unsupported Win10 CI somehow, QA testing team for Windows 10 (programmers won't do this)... and on and on.

All for an dead operating system. I guess this works in your basement mind where people work for free or something.