Greedy enough, sure. Desperate enough to justify the investment, absolutely. But surely someone with some common sense and a voice would prevent this.

Like, this dragging-users-kicking-&-screaming thing paired with more odious data collection is largely why Windows 11 needed 10 to die to catch on.

March 04, 2026 - 05:33 UTC

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And even then, I see the "dead" windows 10 getting used back and forth, just this week I helping a friend with getting 10 LTSC IoT (same I also use solely for superdisplay + CSP)
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I was helping a friend into getting*
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emily i think you're giving them too much credit lol they absolutely could shoot themselves in the foot like that even after ignoring every single person who tries to warn them
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They rightly believe that people will buy whatever they give them, but the question is always for how long. Even if something like this happened, there would be people who hang onto it out of (benign) ignorance or spite.
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I can say for a fact that there's absolutely people in Microsoft developing Windows who would push back against this kind of nonsense because one of them happens to be a family friend. There's no way MS would actually do this unless they want to blow their own foot off
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As I understand it, the corporate culture is very siloed, which means it's very difficult to have a cohesive picture of any project within the org. I attribute most of Microsoft's (post-Gates) poor decision-making to a(n increasing) disconnect between the engineering teams and the decision-makers.
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I would think the same thing about Recall...but the community had to make enough noise to get them to dial it back.
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I wouldn't say windows 11 caught on. It was literally forced on us. The bastards snuck it in on a windows update disguised as a win10 update or at least as innocuously as one. My laptop came with it, my pc updated to it without me realizing that was what it was doing till i restarted.
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You refuse to believe they're stupid enough, but I present to you the entire Xbox brand as it's been managed since the announcement of the Xbox One.
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The thing to remember about Microsoft is that they have always been a corporation of two halves: One half which understands the tech and what consumers need, another half which wants to make as much money as possible, and neither half knows how to communicate with each other. >_<
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It's so frustrating because Windows as a core operating system is not a bad operating system. It's solid, it's proven, but the more they bolt onto it, the less reliable and the less useful it becomes. A company with some of the best software engineers, and the absolute worst bean counters.
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