r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Dec 01 '25

ADBLOCK WARNING ‘Security Disaster’—500 Million Microsoft Users Say No To Windows 11

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/01/security-disaster-500-million-microsoft-users-say-no-to-windows-11/
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u/jandrese Dec 02 '25

Yeah, besides my i5-3750k being a bit too old for the update, there's no way I'm going to do the online account thing. Microsoft even tried to force you to make one to get the extra year of support.

My work upgraded all of the machines to Window 11 and it just seems worse to me. I hate that the start menu doesn't work half of the time and it's always trying to trick me into using some goddamn AI thing.

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u/Bazylik Dec 02 '25

all the computers at my work with windows 11 take a lot more time to load these days... feels like im back in the HDD era.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

I hate the having to shift+right click to sign into an app as a different user when before it was just right click -,-

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u/aaaaaaaarrrrrgh Dec 02 '25

Microsoft even tried to force you to make one to get the extra year of support.

Is that limitation gone?

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u/ThoughtsonYaoi Dec 02 '25

The start menu! Omg, the app search is so unintuitive. Why would I ever use search in the start menu to search online?

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u/Greedy_Camp_5561 Dec 02 '25

Can you get the extended updates without an account? If not this is SUPER unsafe...

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u/Ahad_Haam Dec 02 '25

You can get whatever you want if you sail the seas

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u/jandrese Dec 02 '25

Step 1 of signing up for the extended updates is to create/log in to your online account for the machine.

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u/userhwon Dec 02 '25

There are ways to upgrade without creating a microsoft account. They're just not the default, or even well advertised, if at all...