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Y'all know this article is based on a fake article, right?

Me getting ready to buy their old CPU and put Linux on it:

This year Linux finally goes double digits... thnx microslop

Man, Microsoft doubling down on the whole "Let's force most of our customers to purchase entirely new computers to use the next release!" strategy after it went so well for Windows 11 is just hilarious. Especially with hardware costs skyrocketing due to AI BS.

Imagine using windows in 2026

For all the people on here quick to mock others for being gullible enough to fall for AI-generated slop, this is embarrassing.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

CPU NPU requirements will mean longer support necessity for Windows 11.

If they go ahead with subscriptions, demand will certainly add additional demand for that. But I guess subscriptions would be to cover copilot cost. Given Microsoft's interest in people upgrading to eventually reduce support surface, I have to assume it will be optional, for AI features. Following that reasoning, the NPU requirement may be optional too, only applicable to the AI features block.

But who knows, the whole thing is not driven by reasonable business decisions anyway.

Also, I had no idea there was a "gaming copilot". Even after following links to the introduction news, I don't get what it really does.

Linux.

How can anyone upgrade to a new PC when there is no Ram or hard disks available? This is a crazy time to try to push that.

Jesus Christ.

The Microslop train doesn't stop. It doesn't falter. It doesn't slow.

Microslop gon give it to ya.

I'll take this as a sign to continue converting as many of my friends and family to whichever Linux distro fits them best.

Sloperating System

If it is AI based I guarantee it will be subscription based. That could push me over the edge to some Linux variant.

Never correct your enemy while they are making an error. :D

Linux

They haven’t even gotten everyone into 11 yet. They are tossing out another OS? Seems, dare I say, sloppy.

Well thats a stupid plan. Microsoft has lost their minds with Windows

Hopefully, SteamOS Desktop will be in the wild and shaked off any teething issues. I want to switch to an OS that is suitable for a power-casual. If it looks like a 2nd American Civil War or WW3 is on, I might switch early to Cachy.

One of my 2 PCs already switched to linux because of mandatory TPM 2.0 for windows.

It's like they want us to leave their ecosystem. Requiring hardware changes in the middle of a major component crisis, one that they are in no small part responsible for, is certainly a choice.

I still have clients refusing to buy Office 365 subscriptions and insist on sticking with their old copies of Office 2016. I'd love to see how Microsoft is gonna convince those cheap fucks that this is the correct path forward. This OS is dead.

remember when windows 10 was supposed to be the last os they ever made

So is Mint still the easiest distro? I think I'm switching for good this time.

Good, keep killing your own OS and forcing people to alternatives.

I love how short sighted they are.

Wasn't 10 the last windows?
I guess they're really pushing You'll own nothing and be happy, soon they'll sell TMP/SecureBoot-locked dumb terminals for the masses (with id check of course).

Its not enough for me to see linux do better. Microslop needs to suffer.

This is an article, based on an article+AI that is based on an article, that cite NO SOURCE whatsoever. What are u even discussing about guys...

So they're going to try to get everyone to buy new hardware when there is a shortage of ram and storage and they are ridiculously overpriced.

The timing of this couldn't be worse.

Pass the popcorn.

It’s not clear whether Windows 12 will welcome any non-NPU processors. More likely, PCs that don’t meet its system requirements will lose some functionality.

They will lose some functionality, only if we accept that the slop features meet the definition of what makes a piece of functionality. They seem to not function quite a lot still.

If you’re not ready to switch to Linux:

Windows 10 Enterprise IoT is supported until 2032, works great, contains almost no bloat, and is free to download and activate.

You can configure just about anything else you want or need using Chris Titus’ Power Shell Windows Utility.

Rufus is simple and easy to use for extracting the ISO to a USB drive, and has built in options for setting up a local account and automatically disabling telemetry options during installation.

Microslop is rabidly, desperately, sprinting-on-fire towards a closed mobile-style system paradigm, frothing at the mouth and glowing radioactive iridescent green with envy at Apple and Google’s silicon to application device and software ecosystem control. They want you to purchase the edge tensor hardware they need to run and train the LLMs and machine learning algorithms that will be used to analyze everything you do on your computer, perform deep learning recognition on every photo, video, and file on your hard drive, and securely export that model to themselves, advertisers, and the government at a premium, paid for by our tax dollars.

They’re burning down their own company to do it, that’s how bad they want it.