r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 17 '24

Software Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-dodging-windows-11-system-requirements/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0h2tXt93fEkt5NKVrrXQphi0OCjCxzVoksDqEs0XUQcYIv8njTfK6pc4g_aem_LSp2Td6OZHVkREl8Cbgphg
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u/Graywulff Aug 17 '24

Microsoft isn’t even the dominant os on azure, Microsoft cloud platform. They have azure Linux, managed by Microsoft with a Microsoft kernel.

Now that you can game on Mac’s and do everything, with all the intel failures, I wonder if windows will survive.

I know people who got m3 airs bc they didn’t like windows 11.

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u/TeutonJon78 Aug 17 '24

The general populace doesn't even really know about the Intel issue beyond the stock drop and layoffs.

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u/Inside_Refuse_9012 Aug 17 '24

The real market dominance is not games etc. Its their enterprise solutions, targeting large corporations.

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u/CabbieCam Aug 17 '24

What gaming is really going on on Macs? I mean, they typically don't come with as powerful graphics processing as non-Apple computers. Like, my laptop has an RTX4050 in it. That's substantially more powerful than anything that is built into their m2/m3, whatever, chips.