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Electronic waste and Windows 11 requirements
Petri-XYou brought a good point.
Windows 11 might be the safest OS on the planet. However this is not the point in my opinion.
I have a HP Zbook G6 running windows 10. It works flawlessly. I installed windows 11 and also run without any issues for about a year. All of a sudden I couldn't install a security update. It turned out that I had to go back to windows 10 (after a two weeks discussion with HP).
After this event, I started thinking on the point you raised. It is really a devious approach from both Microsoft and HP.
Especially during times where we need to decarbonise our economies, Microsoft and computer makers comes and drop this bomb on us.
But companies like Apple, Microsoft, etc shouldn't be allowed to get away with claims of being "Green" when their engineering decisions are designed to create MORE e-waste and the throw-away culture. Realistically they are completely free to implement whatever business model they want, but they should be FORBIDDEN from waving the "Green" flag when their business models undermine that, and they should be forbidden from blocking any efforts to promote alternatives (and enforced bundling of one OS to the exclusion of all others is part of that).
The term "cartel" is perhaps a bit too strong word for this. At least I haven't never heard about such thoughts/rumors. That should requires more investigations how the big managers are exchanging the ideas. But as I wrote, only Microsoft knows how much waste they are causing by this decision. Recently they excluded also XEON chips from W11, but that might be rarely scenarios. Unfortunately they most likely would not publishing this.
Still, at the end it is us, consumers, who could make difference as well. If we are not jumping every time when puppet master (marketing people) are asking us to go buy the latest and greatest. One good thing what EU seems to bring on the manufactories, they are asking companies to support repairing in much easier than last years.
