• @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    Thank you Microsoft, forcing everyone to buy new CPUs just to be able to run their latest iteration of Windows.

      • qaz
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        2 months ago

        Windows required CPU’s to have certain extensions/instructions to use the newest version, which might have required buying a new CPU and thus getting one of the affected ones. However, I don’t think it’s reasonable to blame Microsoft for this.

        • @msage
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          152 months ago

          M$ is not the source of this problem, but they did force TPM 2.0 on their OS, forcing people to throw away older CPUs, so they made it much worse.

          • qaz
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            32 months ago

            Oh yeah, I forgot about TPM 2.0 and was just thinking about POPCNT etc.