yeah so many people buy devices they dont neeed. Spicifically a recent time, windows 11 came out… and NO ONE upgraded their PCs, because the new OS gains you NOTHING. This belgiumed off all the manufacturers, everyone sells a PC with windows, they pay for that windows liscince, and they expect to get idiotic users buying a new PC in 4 years even if they doint need one. If microsoft cant get them idiotic customers, they might start worrying theyd created a horrific monopoly and had nowhere else to go, or, GASP, investigate linux and see if any distros are idiotic customer read. This made microsoft belgiumed, but unless they could raise the hardware requirements for windows 11 AND convince people upgrading was worth it, they had no response. Enter: copilot+ PCs!!! All certified PCs were expensive as all, all of them were wasteful and had high margins, if this wouldnt make the manufacturers happy, nothing would!! Small issue. No one cared. YET AGAIN! NO ONE CARES ANYMORE! In the era of the internet, backwards compatibility, open source, free updates, etc, a new OS version is useless without new features, and copilot is not a feature, the only people who like it are microsoft bootlickers who’d upgraded their PC within a year of windows 11 coming out like good little corperate drones. This defeats the whole purpose of course, trying to get loyal customers to upgrade every 2 years is bullying, you want people who dont like windows but need it to upgrade all the time., and you want everyone else, loyal or hanging on, on a healthy slow once every 5 years or so. So, microsoft REALLY needs to convince everyone to buy a new PC, its been years since 11 came out, no one’s upgrading, or if they are they’re buying a new GPU to put in their old desktop, and GPU sellers dont pay for a windows liscince. what to do? Make a show of ending support for windows 10! Convince everyones grandma theyll get viruses and the best way out of that is to learn to ask AI for help with a new copilot+ PC.
No one cared.Why? This sounds like a good plan, right? Well, the issue is microsoft cant really end support, and everyone knew this. In an era before constant internet access all the time or AI which can turn even the stupidest person into someone able to answer obvious questions (like, the upgrade to vista, which people also hated), people wouldnt have felt safe, and would start thinking about buying a new PC. But everyone now knows, microsoft cannot kill an OS, buisnesses rely on OSes. Businesses matter, they have the ability to start industry trends by switching to mac or linux, they have to pay for commerical liscinces (more expensive), they pay for windows server, and IOT/embeded devices often run windows, those need to be left in a dark corner and forgetten about for a decade and still work (think the XP ATMs you’ve heard about). So, microsoft lets corperations keep using windows, and says, “hey we still have to support it, why dont we try to get some users to give us money” and lets people pay to enable extended support. Some idiot let you get it for free and some smart person figured out how to make microsoft think you’ve payed for it (massgrave is your friend, people), so everyone is still on windows 10, or spent the time learning how to make older PCs upgrade to windows 11.
point being, they’re doing a TERRIBLE time shepherding people these days, its laughable.