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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I'm pretty sure Microsoft's intent is to drop these non-paying non subscribing customers and let them use Linux. Microsoft is 100% focused on promoting Azure consumption, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Enterprise Agreement customers and not delivering operating systems for people who won't pay monthly.
They were data mining on non subscribing customers tho, in age of AI nowadays, data mining on real living people is good business
They'll continue thru their azure and entra (identity) services regardless of what OS you are on.
I've never used them tho, most probably USA exclusive thing, i know Azure used in many countries companies on par with aws and Google cloud but it's first time i hear about entra, didn't know it existed
Tons of websites use Azure as their back end. Entra is their IDP service that is often invisible to you and that people can use in their apps to build identity into it. It used to be called Azure AD. These are not public facing technologies, they are PaaS services that developers and hosts use to deliver white labeled products.
Thank you for clarifying, good to know something new, you're right, when they have good chunk of web under control they don't need non subscribers no more
Some very small percentage of people will switch to Linux, the majority of people will just continue to use windows 10.
True, but I'm just saying Microsoft doesn't care about this segment as part of their current strategy and knowing the OEM business is slowing down year to year. It has been a liability since the XP was running well into the Windows 10 era.