Not only that, they used it as a way to have offices upgrade to Windows 11 for the never specified reason of "cyber security" which is where most of their sales come from. The company I work for just had to replace 15 computers at the start of the year and now half of the older software we use doesn't work anymore. Not only that but we were using Office 2019 with a perpetual license that they invalidated so now we have to get Microsoft 365

Also they are still releasing Windows 10 updates.

Planned obsolescence, massive costs for victims, massive environmental damage, yet no consequences.

I haven't appreciated or enjoyed a single thing about windows 11.

Not a single thing.

I've hated at least a dozen changes profusely, though.

I thought it was Linux sales driver... I mean installs driver

i got a copilot button now! It automatically presses some key combination I could have just used before! But I lost the menu key!

the other week I found a Windows 11 install USB I had in the back of a drawer. I decided "meh let me install this on a separate 250gb drive and see how it is, it's been awhile since I used windows" massive. mistake.

I created a MS account and was immediately slammed with microsoft spam. sign up for this ,sign up for that, buy this, buy that, etc etc etc. immediately, i hadn't even finished the install. next the updates. constant and slow. reboot after reboot as certain updates wouldn't work unless a previous one was installed. drivers that wouldn't install unless an MS update was installed first. AND then to top off the pain of it all Windows decided "hey i'm gonna update your bios while I'm here" and borked that to the point where now the FN keys on the laptop I used are now "backwards" affecting my other linux installs on the machine.

never again. it was an awful experience and once it had finished updating everything I immediately nuked the drive.

It was the last straw for me to switch back to Linux after 15 years and I'm eternally grateful for that. Thanks Microsoft.

Almost like their consistent hamfisted greed and bullshit marketing were somehow predictable after forty fucking years as a monopoly.

upgrading is goy behavior