"...even security and driver updates may be withheld."
Given the level of risk Microsoft products hold against the United States, to include National threats within the Federal government, this statement is basically complete and utter bullshit.
Read TFA, and follow the links. The ones that only link to other Verge articles. At the moment 100% of the reporting on this links back to a claim by The Verge. I'm not buying it.
There's a difference between "works" and "supported". And there always has been.
Windows 11 may install and work on some hardware, but that doesn't mean Microsoft will support it. If you get it working, bully for you. But don't expect Microsoft to spend time and resources on keeping it working, or patching edge-case problems in an unsupported configuration.
That's the way it's always been. Why is it a surprise now?
Why? MS will support Win 10 with security snd fix updates for three more years, if security matters to you, and you are forced to run older hardware unsupported by Win 11, then simply run Win 10.
I gave a hard time imagining any organization of any real size (several hundred users) that a) insists on running the very latest version of Windows and b) insists on doing it on 4-5 year-old hardware.
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a
test load.
Empty Threats (Score:4, Informative)
"...even security and driver updates may be withheld."
Given the level of risk Microsoft products hold against the United States, to include National threats within the Federal government, this statement is basically complete and utter bullshit.
Even Microsoft knows this.
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Read TFA, and follow the links. The ones that only link to other Verge articles. At the moment 100% of the reporting on this links back to a claim by The Verge. I'm not buying it.
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There's a difference between "works" and "supported". And there always has been.
Windows 11 may install and work on some hardware, but that doesn't mean Microsoft will support it. If you get it working, bully for you. But don't expect Microsoft to spend time and resources on keeping it working, or patching edge-case problems in an unsupported configuration.
That's the way it's always been. Why is it a surprise now?
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Re: Empty Threats (Score:2)
And they will run Win 10 thru 2024 with the full support of Microsoft...
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And they will run much, much longer than that, with the support of Canonical.
Re: Empty Threats (Score:2)
Why? MS will support Win 10 with security snd fix updates for three more years, if security matters to you, and you are forced to run older hardware unsupported by Win 11, then simply run Win 10.
I gave a hard time imagining any organization of any real size (several hundred users) that a) insists on running the very latest version of Windows and b) insists on doing it on 4-5 year-old hardware.