I really doubt an average Joe would buy a new computer once the old OS goes end-of-life. Joe would just continue using an EOL system and hope everything is alright.
I’m sure average Joe doesn’t even know what EOL means, or knows when it happens. :)
Yeah Elastic Orange Llamas will be difficult to deal with but I think Joe can manage.
Software updates will stop and render the possibility of an unsafe system more and more over time. Since there are no updates, if a backdoor is found it won’t be patched.
Besides that you’ll probably be able to use it for a few more years as long as your apps still work
Having worked in tech fields, legacy devices as old as 20 years can pop up occasionally, functioning or not. Once was told a story where this tech was hired to fix a highschool bell system and the whole thing was running on windows 98. This took place in 2015 or so
The restaurant I work at still uses Windows XP on one of its main tills. It breaks down and freezes constantly.
I work in a field that is considered by many high tech. I have personally seen a system in use today that duel boots windows 2000 and windows 98.
The product it’s used by is old generations and the system does not have any network access but still must be supported by government regulation for several more years…
Few years ago there was a story in a local paper about building automation systems running on Commadore 64 and still doing fine. Build by some company in the 80’s. They weren’t online, so no security issues.
Tried to find the article online but no luck. It would have been in local language anyway.
Even if they was online, I doubt a lot of people have the knowledge for hack a commodore 64.
Changing Operating Systems is obviously impossible, toss em all in the trash…
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For your average and below user, it wasn’t part of the deal on purchase.
Many will, but most people will not. The average user barely knows Linux even exists as an option, let alone wants to learn something new.
It’s all moot for now. Microsoft will end up extending out security updates for 10. They’ll just wait until the deadline is closer before they announce it.
Meanwhile, Apple’s refusal to support computers only three years old has been far, far worse for the environment.
Neither are good prospects… being wasteful has become completely ingrained in North American society
XP is still used in a surprising amount of places so I doubt it.
Consumers will just keep going. But businesses that actually care about security? Yeah it might be a lot. I wonder if they will just toss them or if they’ll actually donate them.
Many companies I work with either sell their old workstations for pittance to their employees after we have nuked the drives or donate them to projects that provide laptops to students or refugees who can’t afford them.
But many companies lease their hardware nowadays, so those end up to landfill or to companies that refurb them and sell them for profit.
Well, this is horrible. And all the Windows 11 requirements are just arbitrary from what I can tell.
