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Petri-X
Sep 19, 2021Bronze Contributor
Electronic waste and Windows 11 requirements
Hey, When looking for the requirements to get Win11 (not for mine Coffee Lake) I started to wonder how much electronic waste Microsoft generate by launching Win11. Perhaps MS already knows that, as ...
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Sep 19, 2021Yes, but believe me Windows11 is the safest system than all previous releases.
And the requirements are the result of analysis and testing - because older computers crashed therefore were excluded. The Insider Program has confirmed this.
You are definitely right
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banjoboy96
Oct 06, 2021Copper Contributor
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Yes, unsupported systems crashed "52% more" according to Microsoft. Given that they say Win11 supported systems are "99.8% crash-free", the 52% figure actually means that unsupported systems are about 99.7% crash-free. What a huge difference which totally justifies encouraging users to dump all of their 4+ year old hardware, right?
- DeletedOct 06, 2021Security is also a factor that decided in this matter - it should be remembered that this is a decision with the active participation of Microsoft partners.
Best regards- Petri-XOct 06, 2021Bronze ContributorNo doubt, the security is high critical on this, but is this really the only way to better security? And do we really believe after this there are no security incidents anymore?
We should also keep in our mind, that "Microsoft Partners" could be more privileged than regular citizen. This is something we often forget. And if the proposal like this has went through of them without any complains, then we could ask: why nobody though about the waste what we currently are generating more and more.
One wish I have had long time is, all devices/toys must have is "Best Before Day". So it would be clear for everybody who buy new device, how long time the device/toy would get security fixes and would be useful. Good thing on that is, then it would be clear to all time time line and that could (should) lead manufactories to build better devices.- DeletedOct 06, 2021Of course you are right!
- banjoboy96Oct 06, 2021Copper ContributorThere are many "unsupported" CPUs that have TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot capabilities. VBS is clearly not ready to be rolled out en masse given the performance issues that have been seen so far, particular in GPU-heavy applicaitons, so this shouldn't really be the reason to create such a huge amount of e-waste either.
I trust the "Microsoft partners" about as much as I trust MS themselves - they're all focused on profit, and Microsoft's recent commitment to "zero waste" by 2030 is completely hollow if they're essentially making users dump their perfectly good devices under the guise of "security".