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Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap | ITPro (www.itpro.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Analysts have warned Windows 10 end of life plans could spark a global torrent of e-waste, with millions of devices expected to be scrapped in the coming years.

Research from Canalys shows that up to 240 million PCs globally could be terminated as a result of the shift over to Windows 11, raising critical questions about device refreshes and the responsibility of vendors to extend life cycles.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it was a false/inaccurate quote, afaik, but my thinking after hearing it was..

yea, last one we'll buy, everything after will be a subscription.

might be 'postponed' a few versions (my guess is whatever's after 12), but i'm certain that's still microsoft's end goal: subscriptions and only subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At the 2015 Ignite conference, Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon stated that Windows 10 would be the "last version of Windows", a statement reflecting the company's intent to apply the software as a service business model to Windows, with new versions and updates to be released over an indefinite period

Doesn’t seem like a false quote

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But incorrectly quoted as "Microsoft promised...". It was one low-tier Microsoft employee who said it once, in a side note of a conference talk that was not about the future of Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He is a Senior Software Development Engineer and was a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, the latter of which apparently translates to press person. So not low-tier but probably side note

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A developer evangelist is not a press person, but a developer that gives talks to other developers. I didn't find any specific numbers, but Microsoft probably has hundreds of them. And anyway you wouldn't expect that kind of announcement to be made by anyone who isn't like C-level, in a presentation made specifically for that fact, accompanied by a big marketing campaign, and so on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

A lot of countries also have hundreds of press people, and being the last version they'll release doesn't sound like a very marketable thing or something you should market, plus the media already spread the evangel by storm