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California man sues Microsoft for discontinuing Windows 10 — says company is doing this to “monopolize the generative AI market” (www.tomshardware.com)
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Lawrence Klein, who’s based in Southern California, filed a complaint against Microsoft in the San Diego Superior Court over its plan to discontinue support for Windows 10 by October 14, 2025. According to the Courthouse News Service, Klein owns two Windows 10 laptops, both of which will become obsolete come October. He asserts that Microsoft is making this move “to force its customers to purchase new devices optimized to run Microsoft’s suite of generative artificial intelligence (AI) software such as Copilot, which comes bundled with Windows 11 by default.”

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Microsoft does support Windows for a good length of time. The problem is when they don't provide a migration route for people using and older OS on hardware that is still perfectly powerful enough to remain in use. If they had Windows 11 fail over gracefully when the recommended TPM etc. is not present, then these users could migrate to Windows 11 without issue. The thing blocking these computers from going over to Windows 11 is an entirely artificial set of requirements concocted by a company that makes money from each new machine sold, and which doesn't care that its customers now have to choose between environmental irresponsibility or running an insecure OS.

That said, Linux is there, it's free, and it's so much nicer.