Serious question. I thought Windows 10 was supposed to be the last Windows? What happened that they are EOLing it and replacing it with Windows 11 and breaking processor compatibility on very capable processors?
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Microsoft walked that claim back years ago.
It is for at home, I bought a new mini PC that came with Windows 11 and I installed Ubuntu straight away.
Next step: request a refund for the Windows licence fee. I did this many years ago for a "Windows Home Server" licence, it took a while but I did get a refund. I had to send in the licence stickers and other Windows-paraphernalia that came with the machine and did so gladly, I already had a "designed for Windows XP" sticker on the toilet lid and a "designed for Windows Vista" one for the garbage can so I did not need more of such. The refund was around €60, not insubstantial for a device I bought for around €350,-. As said this is many years ago but I assume there is still some form of Windows licence fee included with your purchase?
It's the last in the sense that it's mostly a rolling release with some major upgrades.
Thanks! Makes sense. The irony is in 2024, I have spent more time in Windows 3.1 in a QEMU virtual machine lovingly restoring retro games than I have in any modern Windows. I think I will soon have one of the few copy tower capable of reading 5.25 inch floppy disks when I build that system out with parts that have been stored in an air conditioned basement all these years. I'll eventually have to blog about this.
Companies often say things and then some years later do something different than what they said. It’s not like these are legally binding statements.
XP was already the last one, yet we are up to 12 soon ;)