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    Windows 10 EOL PSA (lemmy.ca)
    submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    The home-user PC market has been hit HARD by smartphones and tablets. Suburban families no longer have a desktop in a home office plus a laptop for each member of the family. They may have a laptop, and it's probably a Mac.

    This decision is too make people buy new devices or upgrade to an OS that has a lot more tracking built in.

    Microsoft is pressing AI and other data-scraping tech hard, but they're necessarily going to have to have enterprise and government licenses that allow admins to block those features for legal and security reasons.

    So they desperately need new home users they can data-mine.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

    I see I sideload of Gentleman Agreement with the hardware vendors here:

    • Hardware Vendors : "Oh No, The Market is Slowing Down!"
    • Microsoft: "Hold My Beer, it's Payback Time"

    Everyone wins. Well, the usual suspects win as usual. The environment and the customer can go kiss Mr Gates and Mr Dell's asses.