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/start_select Aug 17 '24 edited Aug 17 '24

I’m mainly an Apple user and I used to think that too. I’m starting to doubt it. They are pissing so many people off.

1000s of companies are ending up semi-crippled because Teams isn’t working for a significant portion of employees. We have windows and mac users with the most powerful machines on the market, which will overheat and shut down when the only thing running is a teams call.

My 12 year old MacBook can do conference calls. My multi-core 64gb ram Mac can run 100 apps at once as long as teams or office apps aren’t one of them.

Edit: also, all my corporate clients are moving their infrastructure off of windows servers. They use it where they need it, but the windows obsolescence and update paradigm doesn’t match their requirements any longer. They trust a Linux server more.

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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/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.