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Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades
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Fuck that and fuck Microslops pick me CEO.
MSFT C Suite:
CPU upgrades? What CPU's? Are the CPU's in the Microcenter with us, Microsoft? Can you show us on the shelf where the mystical CPU's are?
Is the shortage a mirage? Our imagination?
What is the charge? Installing a CPU? A succulent x64 CPU? Gentlemen, this is supply side economics manifest!
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Microsoft can do whatever. I'm not coming back.
I know Lemmy is a Linux echo chamber. But also, I feel like people did actually managed to move to alternative OSes or stay on Win10 cause they were fed up with NoPilot on win11.
Also, once Steam Machine is released, that probably will boost migration to the skies.
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If it is AI based I guarantee it will be subscription based. That could push me over the edge to some Linux variant.
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So I've got a wacky conspiracy theory about this and all the hardware shortages, ai datacenters, etc. The tech companies are trying to position themselves for "cloud only computing devices" being the only affordable option for most people. The you'll own nothing and like it model.
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How much longer will corporate buyers keep taking this?
The enterprise editions don't seem to attract all of the bloat that home and pro editions get. I think they know they can't get away with it.
If they do this, they are going to be laughed out of the room. But then they will announce end of life for Win11 and everyone will stop asking questions and move anyway because "Linux scary".
I hate reality.
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everyone switches to alternative OSes any%
Wasn't 10 the last windows?
I guess they're really pushing You'll own nothing and be happy, soon they'll sell TMP/SecureBoot-locked dumb terminals for the masses (with id check of course).
No, I don't think I wil.
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Sounds like a sound plan Microslop!!!
They can force upgrade themselves in the ass.
The only thing I'm looking forward to more than the collapse of the AI bubble is Microsoft, specifically, eating shit at the hands of a public that doesn't want, need, or give two shits about them anymore. Just like Intel or whatever your favorite example is, see some fucking titan that thought they were some great titan, only to turn out to be Ozymandias when the whole fucking world looks up at them and shrugs. Like the end of the Truman show when this massive, all-consuming industry of a production comes crashing down in an evening, and the television viewers at home happily shrug and say, "what else is on?"
The word about Linux is out, and, as Snazzy Labs recently pointed out, Macs have accidentally become the best value in new computers. There are excellent non-Windows options for ordinary people who just do everything through a web browser and an office suite, for not much money all over the fucking place, and the day their greed catches up to them and they start to lose real market share is so close I can taste it.
'member when Windows 10 was supposed to be the final version of Windows? I 'member.
This is an article, based on an article+AI that is based on an article, that cite NO SOURCE whatsoever. What are u even discussing about guys...
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Never correct your enemy while they are making an error. :D
Sloppy slop MicroSloppitySlop
Man, Microsoft doubling down on the whole "Let's force most of our customers to purchase entirely new computers to use the next release!" strategy after it went so well for Windows 11 is just hilarious. Especially with hardware costs skyrocketing due to AI BS.
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More gear into the second market. Nice.
Me getting ready to buy their old CPU and put Linux on it:
