Bill Gates says he'd "hide from the press" if former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer traded "the new and hot OS" for Windows 10

[Windows Central]

In a recent interview with Bill Gates, Mark Cuban compared The Mavericks trading Luka Doncic to Microsoft trading Windows 11 for Windows 10.

Bill Gates says he'd "hide from the press" if former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer traded "the new and hot OS" for Windows 10 : Read more

 

[bradavon]

It has literally always, almost, happened shortly before every Windows EOL, the product is more popular than the new version.

Windows 10 being more popular at this point isn't surprising it's more popular than Windows 10 it's expected. People always hate change when they have a working product.

This argument keeps showing so much technical ignorance.

 

[naddy69]

Windows 10 is not going to "die" this year. It will continue to work fine for many years AND be supported by 3rd party software for many years.

This week, I updated a couple of very old Windows 8.1 tablets to 10. 8.1 was still running fine, but after 10 years I figured it was time to update. One is a Lenovo 8" tablet with 2 GB RAM, 4 Core Intel Atom and 64GB storage. The other is a much better Dell 10" with 8GB RAM, Intel 4 Core M-5Y71 and 256GB storage.

Yes, both are antiques at this point. Needless to say the Lenovo is slow but usable. The Dell runs fine.

 

[herbertv2]

It has literally always, almost, happened shortly before every Windows EOL, the product is more popular than the new version.

Windows 10 being more popular at this point isn't surprising it's more popular than Windows 10 it's expected. People always hate change when they have a working product.

This argument keeps showing so much technical ignorance.

Honestly Microsoft has dropped the ball with 11, by now 11 should be stable and not falling on it's face with every update Microsoft releases with 12 released or on the horizon . By the time 7 was at EOL 10 was out giving users the ability to skip the poorly recieved 8. Pretty much any system that could run 7 could run 8/8.1 & 10.
windows 11 releases now your 3 year old 6th gen i7 with tpm2.0 computer wont run this version , most 2 year old systems wont either except for Microsoft's own Surface models with 7th gen cpus that were still selling as new at the time.

I witnessed the resistance to Windows 95 from DOS/ Windows 3.x users, the resistance to Windows XP from 9x users. The resistance to the trainwreck releases of Millenium, Vista and 8. Windows 11 release is a bit of both people not wanting to change, to people concerned about stability now with Microsoft telling a considerable portion of their user base that their hardware is junk.

 

[bradavon]

Honestly Microsoft has dropped the ball with 11

Nah nonsense. It's up there.

Anger seems to only be because the Start Menu isn't customisable, but this is coming over the next few months.

The Windows 10 Start Menu is a mess anyway. Unless you customise it, which non-techies don't, it's a mess out of the box for a new PC. Besides, this complaint is due to be fixed.

Windows 11 is certainly no Windows Vista and Windows 8.1. I thought Windows ME was perfectly fine.

 

[Santa Claws]

It has literally always, almost, happened shortly before every Windows EOL, the product is more popular than the new version.

Windows 10 being more popular at this point isn't surprising it's more popular than Windows 10 it's expected. People always hate change when they have a working product.

This argument keeps showing so much technical ignorance.

Has nothing to do with technical ignorance and everything to do with remembering the past. Every time microsoft or Apple has come out with a new OS the user suffers problems from it. If my system is working fine and doing what I need it to do why would I want to slap on a new OS which will always have bugs, will never be 100% compatible with existing apps I'm using and will only end up forcing me to spend more money to get back to the same level I was at before I installed the new OS.

And if you go back even further you'll find Microsoft often came out with new OS upgrades or replacements that always seemed to be more power hungry and all too often required uses to upgrade hardware for the new OS to work properly. People didn't ask for Windows 11 it is simply being forced on them.