Microsoft is trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade with full-screen prompts

I have never received one of these screens with this One Neat Trick:

I disabled the TPM in UEFI settings.

Beautiful.

I'm not a marketing person but maybe they should try making an OS people actually want.

Got to say they convinced me at last and I finally upgraded.
...to linux

Never.Going.Back.

Are they spamming people with this on computers they know don’t meet system requirements?

“We tried asking. We tried begging. We tried bullying. We even tried tricking people into upgrading. We tried everything short of actually making a usable OS!”

If only they didn't intentionally give up compatibility with 250 million PCs by introducing artificial CPU requirements, then adoption rate would be higher...

But blackrock and vanguard (they control ~15% of Microsoft, Intel, AMD) really needed to increase their profits by selling more CPUs...

Also it didn't help that until October 2023 the taskbar was completely broken and unusable, people like me forbid the installation of the os in the company for that reason alone

Microsoft has 18 months to convince folks to upgrade.

They'll be lucky if I boot my Windows 10 partition between now and 18 months.

Can Microsoft be any more annoying?

I had to laugh when I searched for "Vivaldi" in Edge on a new installation and Bing said "There's no reason to switch to a new browser!"

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They have been doing this for at least a year now. They have one that tries to trick you into thinking that it was already updated and you have to finish setting it up. It takes several clicks on tiny hidden buttons to escape it. There's no option to tell it to fuck off forever. They'll pester you again a couple weeks later.

I see Linux in my future, as I just don't have the cash for a new rig.

I have to be careful though, as it's my family PC, and the rest of my family aren't going to tolerate much of a learning curve. It really needs to just work out of the box.

Considering Zorin OS. Hopefully I can get it on my SSD next to Windows so I can dual-boot for a while to test the water...

At least in the EU until now no such PopUps, but it's hilarious, that I can't update to W11 in a 3 years old Laptop, at least not without cheats, only because my Graphic Card, AMD Radeon with 2+1 GB isn't in the MS list, not for other reasons.

I see they're getting desperate. One year and half to eol, and still, according to statcounter, 69% of the world uses windows 10.

My computer doesn't meet the requirements so I guess I'll just not.

I took the free upgrade. Then after a bit I updated my bios and it killed my license. Microsoft wouldn't fix it and said I changed my hardware so there was nothing they could do. Still pissed off about that.

I think now that I’ve moved most of my photo editing to my Mac and steam has propelled gaming on Linux into ‘very reasonable’ territory, it might be time to actually just ditch the ol’ windows. Only issue is I have an nvidia gpu atm unforch.

Installed Zorin OS the same day I got the full-screen prompt.

Pretty much the only thing I use my PC for is gaming so it really sucks that I can't just dump them for Linux...

I don't want some games. I don't want to have something I've been hyped about be out of reach for God knows how long just because Linux support is crap as the market share is so low, but man do i hate Microsoft...

If corporations would just end their love affair with exchange online and fucking outlook, maybe windows would go away

What's new? This has been going on since the launch of W11.

I'll upgrade once Win11 is out of open beta. Almost once a week they patch in a bug that's inconvincing users, I don't have that issue with win10. I wish MS would spend that energy on bug fixing and QoL UI elements. Win11 has less taskbar options, you'd think they added them by now...

If epic didn't suck ass and actually wanted to support EAC on Linux I already would have switched.

I'm used to hearing about how a lot of people are put off of Lemmy because of all the "Linux" people on it, "people pushing Linux", "elitists", etc.

And yet I see something like this and think "are we not supposed to give good advice?".

If is the kind of thing you want for your computing then go for it.

The cycle continues

yet again

At the Office it's my employers problem and at home Mint doesn't give AF about Windows 11.

If Microsoft gifts me a mobo that supports their new tmp2 or whatever then I'll switch, until then I'm sadly stuck on w10, oh the misery 🙃

Someone should let Microsoft know that they only have 18 months left to put out an OS that isn't a complete dumpster fire. Right now, I would take Vista over 11.

I would gladly upgrade to W11 if MS just let me on my old hardware (which is still fast enough for my daily tasks)

They could convince me to update by making windows 11 not suck.

Windows 10 keeps turning that stupid news feed back on on my taskbar, too.

Not creepy at all/s

How long will we be able to use 10 after EOL? Would companies immediately stop updating their apps?

Upgrade to Linux! :D

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Reddit user Woopinah9 spotted a notification “while in the middle of working,” where Microsoft thanks Windows 10 “customers” for their loyalty with a full-screen message and then explains the end of support date.

“Your PC is not eligible to upgrade to Windows 11, but it will continue to receive Windows 10 fixes and security updates until support ends on October 14th, 2025,” reads Microsoft’s message.

The options to dismiss the full-screen interruption include “learn more” and “remind me later” buttons, which suggests that this prompt might appear more than once.

Surprisingly, Microsoft’s full-screen prompt doesn’t directly mention that consumers will be able to continue securely using the operating system beyond October 14th, 2025, if they’re willing to pay.

Microsoft revealed last week that it will cost businesses $61 per device for the first year of Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10.

Hopefully, non-business users of Windows 10 will get similar discounts, but Microsoft says it will share details “at a later date.”

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Win 11 will eventually replace win 10, just as win10 replaced win7, they are just desperate to reach their target before releasing windows 12.

they don't bother me

probably because they would have to back down of pretending they require specific hardware I'm not going to buy.

I don't even get why they care. Can't you just inform users once, then drop support and still collect their data?

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I installed Atlas OS on my Windows 10 machine and I don’t get any of this shit.

Not me. I kill any process that pops up in task manager whenever i have to connect to the net. Some of them are annoyingly persistent but so far no full screen popups

I wish I wasn’t a vr gamer sometimes so I could unsubscribe from this os permanently

Alternative for those which want to use still Windows, but without all its crap and spyings

https://windowsxlite.com