It is so obvious that the forced stoppage of support for #Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 has everything to do with forcing people to buy new hardware, and nothing with the technical possibilities of #Microsoft to produce a good working operating system that works on a wide scale of different performing hardware.

I have a still well functioning laptop that will soon have an OS that is not supported anymore. This is truly ridiculous and renders good functioning laptop useless. Yes I know I can put #Linux on it, and I will. But it is for work-purposes a step back as the stability and availability of software is different.

It has all the vibes of cartelisation, central software/OS-producers with hardware industry, pushing people to buy new hardware.

#Capitalism destroys the environment and forces us to use the resources of our #planet in an inefficient and destructive manner. We need a fundamentally different economy and tech-sector. Here is a draft for a couple of pillars of such a tech-sector: https://kolektiva.social/@LibSpring/114002923715678754