Mildly Infuriating

While I agree this is a shit thing to do, I am looking forward to the influx of cheap hardware.

Yeah just who exactly out there can you go to, to simply 'trade in' a computer? It's not like a car where you trade in a car for another car.

I don't really see an awful lot of computer trade-in programs, they aren't just going to give you a beefy PC with Windows 11 on it for a computer you've ran a good 5 or more some odd years with Windows 10.

Isn't Windows 10 suppose to be the last Windows release? We changed our minds.

Weird hill to die on perhaps; but I'll never forgive Microsoft for arbitrarily deciding to not support my Core i7 6700K 4Ghz CPU on Windows 11.

Simply because: I cannot find a single actual technical reason why it wouldn't be compatible (yes, my mobo also has TPM). It's even higher specced than many other 'supported' chips.

MS apparently just decided I hadn't spent enough money lately. Well now I won't - on your products - ever again, while this i7 will continue to run Win 10 for games and Linux for all else.

I mean, what do you expect them to say?

"Time to install Linux, here's how you chose a kernel:"

"Trade it"

TO FUCKING WHOM? The whole point is that you made it useless.

(Unless this is Microsoft providing some free advertising for Linux)

Time to encourage people to switch to Linux instead

Hold on to your butts.

Big influx of Linux-compatible office PCs hitting eBay soon.

This is the biggest garbage a tech company did to almost 256 million PCs in use and fully working. I installed Linux Mint on all three PCs I own. Free and works far better than I thought.

I took the last message I got from them as an invitation to ditch Windows for Linux. Now I wish I did that earlier!

The OneDrive plug at the end is *chefs kiss*

“But don’t learn about Windows 10 LTSC IoT!”

I love how in a world where we banned straws we are somehow OK with Microsoft pushing people to recycle their old but otherwise adequate system for what, to the vast majority of people, are some paper thin security advantages.

Anybody who asks me about Windows 10's EOL date will be introduced to the option of using Linux before i'll help them select a replacement system. Especially if they literally only use a browser there really is no reason to go through hoops or spend money to stick with Windows.

end of support for windows 10

beginning of support for linux mint

Trade it in or recycle it with local organizations

And what are those organizations expected to install on systems that can't support Windows 11, Microsoft? What are they expected to install exactly?

Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux

Windows 11 is the most secure Windows ever built

They've been saying that about every single one since that notoriously insecure one. ME, I think?

Also, I'm pretty sure that Tiny11 or the like is more secure if you consider data privacy important, since a lot of the privacy issues of Windows 11 are coming from the unnecessary parts of Windows itself..

Windows 11 is the most secure Windows ever built, with comprehensive end-to-end security

Does "end-to-end security" actually mean anything in this context, or is it just intended to evoke "end-to-end encryption"?

Ugh. I'm going to have to seriously look at Linux, aren't I?

Absolutely no idea where to start with that, nor whether any of the software I need for work (or indeed anything else) is compatible, not how I'm going to find the time to learn all this.

Bleugh 😔

EDIT - Just want to say thanks to everyone for all the helpful tips and advice below. Will make it my mission this summer to at least understand Linux better and work out if it's for me. Cheers, you lovely people 👍

this is literally E-waste
Reminds me what Spotify did with the Spotify car thing

They're not even ashamed of intentionally creating e-waste for people that don't know that Linux exists

What a coincidence - I stopped supporting it too!

Before you recycle your Windows 10 PC (or just switch to Linux and avoid wasting resources), keep in mind while Windows 10 22H2 is ending in 7 months, 21H2 LTSC Enterprise is still good for 1 year 10 months:

https://endoflife.date/windows

To download the 21H2 LTSC, go here:

https://archive.org/details/en-us_windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_202301

Then generate a free license key using the Ohook or KMS38 methods via PowerShell as explained here:

https://massgrave.dev/

Disclaimer: I haven't tried this myself so there may be some bugs/issues along the way. For my next laptop, I'm thinking about switching to Linux and specifically Ubuntu or Fedora, so this won't really impact me

Holy shit they really just said, "throw it away". Troglodytes!

"Trade it in or recycle it" basically means "your best bet to solve this problem is to pass it on to someone else, who will pass it on to someone else, and so on until it arrives at landfill".

This is incredibly infuriating and I'd honestly consider it ecoterrorism and abusive.