Windows 10 users started seeing full-screen pop-ups after installing a cumulative update in May 2023. Now, the pop-up is back again on Windows 10 PCs after installing the optional update released in January 2024. Of course nobody wants a huge multi-slide ad when he goes to use his computer.
It has been more than two years since the release of Windows 11, but a large number of users are still using Windows 10. Microsoft announced that Windows 10 (EOS) will be supported on October 14, 2025 and slowly began to urge users to switch to Windows 11, without of course asking if they have the appropriate hardware.
Despite the free upgrade offer, many are sticking with Windows 10, at least until the EOS (end of support) date arrives.
As you can see in the screenshots above, Microsoft is promoting Windows 11 through a four-page popup:
First screen: Microsoft tells you that your PC can go to Windows 11 for free. You can still use your computer while it is setting up the new system in the background.
Second Screen: Microsoft recommends moving to Windows 11 because it's a smooth process. Your stuff will move to the new system and it will be easy to get used to.
Third screen: This message presents Windows 11 as a fun upgrade with a new look, better security and speed. It's designed to be easy to use and help you work and play better. It also mentions that some things from Windows 10 may not be in Windows 11.
Fourth Screen: Finally, Microsoft tells you that you can stay on Windows 10 if you want, but reminds you that you can upgrade to Windows 11 for free.
But why aren't users switching to Windows 11, which promises to be so perfect? (better user interface, improved system apps and full integration of AI)?
For some, it's the lack of stability. for others it's the lack of support for older hardware. Windows 11's strict requirement for a TPM 2.0 chip prevents installation for many users.
Even if a PC has very good specs, older chips prevent them from running Windows 11.
Although Windows 11's market share saw a slight increase from 26,63 to 27,82 percent after the September 2023 update that brought Copilot, Windows 10 also saw a sharp drop from 71,6 percent to 66,43 percent during this period, the percentages of 10 remain high.
66,43% of users are still using Windows 10, so Microsoft may consider expanding EOS. Otherwise, if 60% of Windows users don't get updates, we'll see a spike in security incidents.
Microsoft did not allow older computers to use windows 11... but a few days later it also showed us how to bypass requirements such as TPM 2.0, new generation processors, etc. The reason is simple... I don't think it would want the millions of computers that do not meet the requirements of the new windows after the end of 10 support to switch to Linux.
If my "computer" memory does not deceive me, historically there was no other time when millions (perhaps many hundreds of millions) of PCs were depreciated in one day (I'm talking about 14 10 2025). Because we will talk about obsolescence that day if it does not extend the support of 10aries or IF it does NOT issue a "lite" version of 11aries (without TPM etc).
My contact with computers started somewhere, in a lane, in Kolonaki in front of a Cromemco sometime in 1985.
Since then I have "played" as a simple user and better with the passage of time, with comodore, amiga, IBM and its compatible PC's. In all this journey I DO NOT REMEMBER ANY relevant case where an entire computer manufacturing line was devalued in one day.
Yes, companies that developed software closed, modified, changed kernels, but for a long time (after any closing of any companies) you found software that supported that you had a PC in front of you.
For that matter, at the end of 2025, a generation of sublisters, a terrifyingly huge production line of rams, cpu, mobo and controllers will go "unreadable" (into dumps) since the 10ar platform will not be supported. Together they will go "unreadable" and millions of tons of fans, cables, PSU's and computer boxes.
Bad lies. The world, the vast majority of the world, is familiar with windows (and android on mobile), regardless of whether I'm writing from Linux. And worse are the lies fed by some ... experts who say: come on baby! So what ! you will put a good antivirus on the 10s and everything will be fine.
But this is not the case and PCs are not enough (for their security) with a good antivirus. As good as that is.
Going back to the 11s, let's think about something. Is TPM technology enough to have a secure computer?
Nah ! Not even for a joke!
So what is MS up to? What does he wish to do?
That she and her partners always did.
To create a new consumer market with room for leverage of enormous economic dimensions. Whether these partners are in the USA or in China...
Some entities such as Washington of the USA and Brussels of the EU. they have a chance to push MS to continue 11s, with a lite version, without the need for GPUs and APUs for modern directx versions.
Without the necessity of having a TPM, without the necessity of having a UEFI, since (let MS also know) there are kooosmos and kosmaki who have computers not for their FSR and cuda but to do their simple daily tasks and to pass the his free time. Even people who have PCs as typewriters exist and who, YES, want to go online while writing and listen to music, find an article, read news headlines, without exposing themselves to the dark web or/ and in tsontes (which are also included by the European Parliament for those who don't know)...
lite 11s that - yes, my child - do not have AI and the ability to perform trillions of floating point operations. 11-series that will simply work quickly with an SSD, even if it is not a PCie5...