They could probably reduce the support needed for drivers that support said older hardware. I would imagine some of those drivers are probably hard to maintain. That’s my guess anyway.
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NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 7 months agoAssuming Microsoft is acting nefarious here, what would there motivation be to lock out older hardware?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 7 months ago
To sell new hardware with new OEM windows licenses
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Or in future be able to block programs they don’t like or that are modified in a way they don’t like. Or be like android and lock it down so you can’t be admin without losing ability to use applications