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Old 06-29-2021, 15:01
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Most of the forced attempts at getting people to upgrade have just been for a means of new monetization. Since Windows 10 is 'free', Microsoft's goal was to get as many people onto it as possible to collect telemetry data instead, which is worth way more than the typical $100 for the OS.

This is generally done with misleading advertisements saying that systems 'cant' support Windows 10 when they perfectly can. For example, Microsoft added installer blocks to the OS's to try and force people to use Windows 10 on newer processors in a deal with Intel. So any chip that was made more recently would get an unsupported error and be 'forced' into using Windows 10. (The community has since made patches to get around this nonsense and allow older installs again.)

However, in that same deal, a lot of hardware manufacturers are in agreement to no longer make drivers for anything prior to Windows 10 on newer devices/hardware.

They also attempted to prevent certain frameworks/libraries from working on past versions of Windows or refused to update things further than a certain point to try and limit what people can do if they are still on Windows 7. (ie. Some games won't run by default, DirectX 12 isn't supported natively, newer .NET Frameworks aren't supported, etc. but all have varying community patches to allow/run etc.)

Ultimately, comes down to the user and what they feel is worth the effort to deal with all the workarounds required to keep using older operating systems. Windows 11 has already tried to do a similar tactic to force people into buying new hardware again with a non-legit requirement of newer CPUs and a TPM 2.0 module, both of which are not actually required.

It's doing nothing but creating more e-waste at the expense of the customer only, just to line the pockets of all involved in the agreements to try and get people to buy newer generation hardware. It's basically them creating forced obsolescence to keep people spending money. Who knows how much new telemetry shit is baked into Windows 11 too.
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