Or maybe they will launch Win 12 with optional TPM support.

Imho making the OS(es) TPM only cannot be good for their business, many people are still on Win 10 with no intention to switch, since their motheboard does not support TPM and do not want to upgrade PC / waste PCI-E slot on TPM extension.

  • KISSmyOS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    10 months ago

    making the OS(es) TPM only cannot be good for their business, many people are still on Win 10 with no intention to switch

    The switch from Win 10 to Win 11 costs nothing, so Microsoft doesn’t care at all whether you keep using 10 until your PC dies.
    The next one you buy will come with 11 preinstalled.

    Microsoft doesn’t care if you install Linux either.
    You’ve already paid for the Windows license when you bought the PC.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      You’ve already paid for the Windows license when you bought the PC.

      Me scratching off the labels of old Win7 office computers at work

    • Alex@feddit.roEnglish
      62·
      10 months ago

      But they can’t track you as much on windows 10, and almost not at all on linux

      • KISSmyOS@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        10 months ago

        Telemetry data doesn’t make the CEO rich.
        Microsoft makes their money from cloud services for businesses, the desktop OS is a loss leader that’s designed to get people to use the cloud services.

          • Patch@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I don’t know if it’s still this way, but a decade and more ago (when I last had any professional contact with Microsoft’s development) the company was effectively divided into two competing factions- the Office people and the Windows people. They had wildly different priorities for the shared tech stack, and mutually exclusive demands on the others’ products, and there was a constant bun fight on who got their way. The surprising thing is, even by that era, the Office faction were the dominant one; that’s where the real money was.

            Then I gather the Azure faction was born and has completely dominated both, becoming a massive majority of the company’s profitable business.

            The gaming people (Xbox and whatnot) were always poor relations, if you’re wondering, and MS R&D was its own eccentric little world which seemed to exist entirely outside of the universe inhabited by any of the others.

      • anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        That’s such a tiny market that it’s completely irrelevant to a company like Microsoft.