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They should have just kept incrementally upgrading W10. People don't like big changes and there's not much encouraging people to 11 except 10 going EOL.
IIRC, that was actually the plan. I remember Microsoft saying way back that 10 would be the last version of Windows and everything would be just upgrades to 10 moving forward.
System as a service. I remember that as well. Obviously they didn't make as much money with it as they wanted to. Sooo they just draw an arbitrary line regarding supported CPUs, ditch Windoof 10, push 11, force users to upgrade their hardware and therefore often force them to buy new licenses and making new friends that way by starting that in the middle of the chip crisis. Then, captivating the user in their new OS, shoving ads down their throat, harvesting their data to make even more. What a shitshow.
The same story of publicly traded companies again and again.
Your steady growth isn't good enough.
Your growth has to grow - and if it's not growing fast enough then you're not doing your duty to the shareholders.
Add in the fact that we've let businesses get so large they empty all the air from the room and we've managed to enshittify our entire society.
Which is exactly why I actually bought 10 instead of cheating an upgrade "hack" I figured out with XP that I then carried over to 10. I figured if it's actually the last then it's worth the 500 fucking dollars or whatever the hell it cost back then.
But no, they lied. I know surprise surprise a corporation lied.
Well yeah, but the problem is win 10 isn't built from the ground up to be able to cater for ads inserted into your welcome bar, explorer bar, settings page, start menu and personalised ads ...... :( we live in the worse timeline dont we.
This isn't the worst timeline. It was always destined to end up this way. Corporations consider themselves ethically mandated to squeeze as much profit out of customers as they can, to find the exactly monetary line where the number of customers they drive off is balanced by the money they can gain by the things that drove them off. They actually believe that, and that basically means any profit-seeking corporation is going to ruin their user experience in the long run.