Microsoft REQUIRES new modern hardware, which means new PCs must be bought which results in PC manufacturers promoting Windows and Microsoft get a license fee each time a new PC is sold.
It’s deliberate but it’s also short sighted because essentially every existing PC can’t be upgraded, which means everyone is stuck in the old version.
Microsoft’s first moves in the launch of Windows 11 are failed business decisions.
Their logic is sound…. They need to ensure they hardware partners are boosted by Windows 11.
This is the key point. Most people fail to understand the truly impossible scale of the challenge to travel between the stars. Why would the visitors then make themselves impossible to see or find? The usual response to this is they’ll have some sort of magical way of interstellar travel we don’t understand that makes it not so hard. Meh. Doesn’t ring true.
I’ll believe aliens are here when a starship hauls in and parks.
And I’ll be very, very concerned at that point about exactly what it is they want.
It’s deliberate but it’s also short sighted because essentially every existing PC can’t be upgraded, which means everyone is stuck in the old version.
Microsoft’s first moves in the launch of Windows 11 are failed business decisions.
Their logic is sound…. They need to ensure they hardware partners are boosted by Windows 11.
It does not bode well.