Of course they are. Coincidentally, newer devices being bought in 2025 are increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2025
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I have never seen this nor can I find any examples of this online. Any examples?
I thought that was illegal.
Do you happen to know any specific hardware that does so? I haven't heard of that and I'm genuinely curious.
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increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.
This is false information.
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Will they run in WINE?
Tricky. Microsoft currently use two different executable formats and only one of them is compatible with WINE. That still doesn't mean that a compatible one will work properly though.
On the other hand, people who make ads want their ads to be literally everywhere, so they might make it Windows 3.11 compatible with all library functions baked in just to be safe. WINE would almost certainly run that.
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At this point if Microsoft released windows 12 for like 200$ with out any of the adware spying shit I probably would buy it. Hell make it 500$. They would probably make more than what they do selling your data.
Linux is free
Thank goodness I have zero use for any of their products.
I have a windows game box, it nags me to backup my photos when I visualise 1 (one) image.
What a shit OS it has become lol.
They have this in Windows 10...to advertise Windows 11.
Do it! At this point Linux can do anything windows can do, I want them to fuck it up as much as possible, Fuck Microsoft !
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I'm in a constant battle to keep it removed off our office machines. You can't remove it completely since its cached and installed with every user login. In order to get rid of it we would have to pay for the enterprise version. Just another rip off from macroshit.
Since I made the switch these kinds of news are hilarious! Yes, make Win 11 into hell! Your customers are your shareholders, users are too be exploited! How long can it last? Who cares, only the next quarter counts!
So glad I completely gave up on MS after Windows 7.