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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] anguo@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was aware of that, but had imagined that newer machines would have slowly migrated to something else. I'm also always astonished by the fact these are running full OSes.

[โ€“] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

No manufacturer wants to take the risk to reinvent a wheel that may be less secure.

I mean, yeah it would be ideal of the manufacturer created their own OS but I also know that nearly everyone hires the cheapest, least skilled devs for projects like this.

And not all of them are full OSs, XP had a bunch of creative ways you could remove system components to make basically a kiosk with almost no other functions.