Sorry if this is redundant elsewhere, but my topic suggestion:
Windows 11, who asked for it?
Before the W11 VM leak, we were all motoring along with Windows 10 with it's constant cycle of upgrades and (sometimes) patched security holes. Seemed to be fine. Now all of a sudden W11 comes along and we all have to throw our trusty old PC's out to have some esoteric security flag on new hardware no one really asked for. Really, Word and Excel don't need a ton of horsepower, and I could give a crap about rounded window corners. My couple year old machine does just fine, thanks. (1st gen Ryzen obsolete? GTFO bloatware Windows) My gaming can be done just fine by whatever my budget can handle video card wise and W10.
Is this some ploy for MS to sell some new licenses and keep the cash cow rolling? They're upset that W10debloater extracted all the spyware and popups they make revenue on, so the new version will stop that? (They couldn't have rolled out a new creators update to 'fix' that?)
But this gets back to my original plan. If you like Windows to begin with, (take a seat Linux/Mac fanbios) did any of us want (or actually NEED) a new refreshed version? There's some reason for MS to backpedal on the "Last version of Windows you'll ever need.'
You guys do a bang up job cutting through a lot of the marketing fluff. Do you guys have some behind the scenes info what the real driver is here to set us straight? Or maybe just some educated guesses presented (somewhat) fairly to be hashed out in the comments section?