moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoMicrosoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirementswww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square151fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoWell, they won’t be able to sell as many new computers if they let people keep using their old ones.
minus-squareABCDE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThey aren’t big in selling hardware.
minus-squareABCDE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoEven then (and with their Surface tablets) they’re not big for MS.
minus-squareToribor@corndog.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoSomewhat ironically the Surface laptops are really great Linux machines.
minus-squareMyFairJulia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoMicrosoft still makes money off the OEM licenses AFAIK. The Linux community had a whole day about this back in the 90s.
Well, they won’t be able to sell as many new computers if they let people keep using their old ones.
They aren’t big in selling hardware.
Except for laptops.
Even then (and with their Surface tablets) they’re not big for MS.
Somewhat ironically the Surface laptops are really great Linux machines.
Microsoft still makes money off the OEM licenses AFAIK. The Linux community had a whole day about this back in the 90s.