Calls to tech support are by accounting defintion. So that makes it easy to draw the line somewhere, and cut off groups of negative-value customers. Its 2026 and times are tough baby.
It's getting tough for shitters with some old ass legacy PC who depend on online services. Hopefully they were smart enough to understand they were living on borrowed time.
edit, also there are government subsided smartphones if you need one.
I mean, sure; you can come up with some kind of justification to call just about anything "a technical reason".
But there's no genuinely technical reason—one you don't have to twist yourself into pretzels over—that fairly ordinary software, working fine on Win11, would not work on Win10.
Easy question because you need to evaluate every dependency for Win10 compatibility, Win10 bugs that MS fixed in Win11, running unsupported Win10 CI somehow, QA testing team for Windows 10 (programmers won't do this)... and on and on.
All for an dead operating system. I guess this works in your basement mind where people work for free or something.
Calls to tech support are by accounting defintion. So that makes it easy to draw the line somewhere, and cut off groups of negative-value customers. Its 2026 and times are tough baby.
> Its 2026 and times are tough baby
Tough even for firms that have regulatory capture in a ~$48 billion market?
You know it as well as I, no gotcha here buddy.
It's getting tough for shitters with some old ass legacy PC who depend on online services. Hopefully they were smart enough to understand they were living on borrowed time.
edit, also there are government subsided smartphones if you need one.
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I mean, sure; you can come up with some kind of justification to call just about anything "a technical reason".
But there's no genuinely technical reason—one you don't have to twist yourself into pretzels over—that fairly ordinary software, working fine on Win11, would not work on Win10.
Easy question because you need to evaluate every dependency for Win10 compatibility, Win10 bugs that MS fixed in Win11, running unsupported Win10 CI somehow, QA testing team for Windows 10 (programmers won't do this)... and on and on.
All for an dead operating system. I guess this works in your basement mind where people work for free or something.