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by joe_mamba8 hours ago |
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upvoteby magicalhippo55 minutes ago|
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> You want to sell your SW product to the most common denominator to increase your sales, not to a market of HW that people don't yet have.

A key difference between regular software and Windows is that almost nobody buys Windows, they get it pre-installed on a new PC. So a new PC purchase means a new Windows license.

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upvoteby RajT881 hours ago|
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You are just arguing the requirements are the requirements.

Are they as important as stated? Microsoft says so. Everyone here loves and trusts them, right?

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upvoteby ssl-36 hours ago|
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Windows 11 is running on my ThinkPad T530. Its CPU is very nearly 14 years old.

What is missing here that was present when this same computer was running Windows 10?

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upvoteby joe_mamba6 hours ago|
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>Windows 11 is running on my ThinkPad T530. Its CPU is very nearly 14 years old.

Yes, you can bypass HW checks to install it on a pentium 4 if you want, nothing new here.

>What is missing here that was present when this same computer was running Windows 10?

All the security features I listed in the comment above.

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upvoteby ssl-35 hours ago|
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So, if I'm hearing this right:

This computer had the security features that you listed while it was running Windows 10, and now that it is running Windows 11 it is lacking them?

(I'm not trying to be snarky. That's simply an astonishing concept to me.)

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upvoteby 9dev3 hours ago|
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It hadn’t. Windows 11 has them, due to support for new hardware mitigation features. What is it you don’t understand in particular?
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upvoteby ssl-33 hours ago|
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There's a lot here that is hard to understand:

> > What is missing here that was present when this same computer was running Windows 10?

> All the security features I listed in the comment above.

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