• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Probably a sad attempt at adding “shiny” features to get people to upgrade to 11 once updates are no longer published for 10?

    “We’ll get people hooked on these shiny features, 90% of which are not interesting. Then we’ll pull the update rug from under them. And bingo, they’ll upgrade!!”

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      5 months ago

      Probably more like, “we’ll make Windows 10 indistinguishable from Windows 11, at which point people will have no reason to stick with Windows 10” (unless their computers can’t update to Windows 11, like my laptop)

      Or maybe I’m just showing that I know nothing about how updates work and that I perhaps shouldn’t be commenting in a technology community…

      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        Technically win 11 has the same main version number to win 10. They’re essentially different UIs with extra features in 11. There’s no technical reason why anything in 11 can’t be backported to 10 unless it requires a TPM (maybe)