Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025

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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025
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When Chrome/Firefox stop getting updates and websites stop working they will

So at least 3 more years, plus however long it takes for website makers to use features exclusive to the very latest versions.

The only stuff that I know no longer works and is in common use is TLS. That's the only reason some of our customers updated from XP.

But that will only happen when the user base falls, so enough people will have had to move on organically, for popular tools like web browsers to give up.

Firefox didn't end windows 7 support until July of last year. 3 years after eol for 7 and when 7's market share among windows was around 3 percent.

And just eol'ing Firefox doesn't immediately break it, you will have at least a couple years before the browser becomes functionally useless.