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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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Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.

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[โ€“] Pra@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I always laugh at, after being in the military and a government employee, things being marketed as military grade. So what, it runs on windows server 2003 and hasn't been in production for 20 years?

[โ€“] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

From what little I've seen, there's a divide between old and new tech.

Like how headset visual tracking for attack copters was a thing already back when Nintendo released the Virtual Boy, alongside the fact that there is still equipment in service running software that had to be millennium bug patched.