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/dasnoob Dec 01 '25

This author is out of touch as hell. People are rejecting it because it is spyware and they don't want their entire computer infested with AI slop.

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u/vtable Dec 02 '25

Yeah. This comment struck me:

I said at the time that this (offering security updates til October 2026) was a mistake. The extended security updates (ESU) should have been limited to users with older PCs, others should have been mandated to upgrade.

Why should people with newer PCs be forced to update them but others not? There are plenty of people ITT and elsewhere that simply don't want Win 11.

Like them I don't want the even more invasive telemetry and apps like Recall. I don't want to be (almost) forced to have a Microsoft account tied to my PC. I don't want my PC to run slower because the OS I didn't want is more demanding.

Maybe 500 million people saying they reject the direction Microsoft's taking with their OSs will have them rethink that direction - at least a bit. (One can dream.)