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Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Which is why I dropped windows after 7 and went linux. Telemetry bullshit was odious in 10, but in 11 the spyware is basically one of the core functions/purposes.

Its why they pushed Windows 11 for free. Cause its not the product, you are.

Theres more money to be made in monetizing your daily using habits and selling them (and serving you tons of ads), than there is in making you pay 150-200 bucks for the new OS once.

And that new direction and drive radically alters how they develop the OS, and how you, the user, may interact with it. Which is why Windows is on the path of becoming a walled garden experience, with strict controls for "Security" (I.E. to keep you from doing anything that might impede their harvesting of data)