Should OS makers, like Microsoft, be legally required to provide 15 years of security updates?

  • merdaverse@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Microsoft’s plan to end Windows 10 support next month — which may make an estimated 400 million PCs obsolete

    I don’t get this. Can’t those PCs update to the new version? Yes, I am very aware that win11 is a shit show and win10 was better.

    But Ubuntu also has a similar support policy for updates:

    Ubuntu LTS versions get five years of updates, while non-LTS only gets nine months.

    Would all the Linux versions out there be subjected the same 15 years of updates??

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 hour ago

      No, Windows 11 added extra, unneeded hardware requirements.

      Obsolete in this case actually means obsolete. Windows 11 literally blocks the update because you do not meet requirements, such as not having a TPM.

      Technically, there are ways to bypass this, but not for a casual user (and it probably breaks some ToS)

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      1 hour ago

      Correct, the “obsolete” PCs can’t update to Windows 11. The Windows 11 update forces certain hardware support that a lot of devices don’t have. The security this hardware provides is mainly in someone physically removing data from your PC. As such it’s very business oriented but affects all versions of Windows 11.