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Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:

The demand for new machines will be high, driving up cost.

The supply of unsupported machines will be high, driving down the used market.

Are you all ready?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's mostly just to force the hands of businesses that will now have to upgrade to stay compliant with security standards

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Which is probably the play. I'd doubt Microsoft really gives a flying fuck about home users buying licenses anymore, since their revenue model for consumer Windows is just ads and data harvesting now anyway.