Microsoft reportedly shows full-screen Windows 11 upgrade ads with two 'yes' buttons

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[–]Bonn1770 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Joke's on them my old ass PC isn't up to spec for win 11.

[–]Clownfall 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The official system requirements are just plain silly, given the number of older but still more-than-decent CPUs are excluded.

If they want average home users to upgrade, they need to lower those requirements.

If they want power users to upgrade, they need to... fix the user experience so that using something like ExplorerPatcher isn't mandatory.

[–]cant_even 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If they want average home users to upgrade, they need to lower those requirements.

They DON'T WANT:

  1. Non-"TPM"
  2. Non 'Secure'-boot and non-EFI ('legacy') boot capability
  3. "Obsolete" CPUs without Intel Management Engine

...because it interferes with their back-door strategies.

The "general-purpose computer" is being turned into another 'smart-connected appliance'; a two-way Telescreen©1984.

[–]Clownfall 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. They seemed to had backed down on that for a while after the failure of Win8/WinRT/Metro, giving us a decent Win10.

Hopefully history will repeat, and Win12 will give us decent-enough general purpose computing for another decade or so...