Up To 400 Million Computers Soon To Become Obsolete As Support Ends For Windows 10

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00:00Up to 400 million computers soon to become obsolete as support ends for Windows 10.

00:06Free support for Microsoft Windows 10 comes to an end on Wednesday.

00:10That's a significant problem, as almost half of all Windows computers worldwide run on this particular operating system.

00:16According to 404 Media, this means that as many as 400 million computers will soon become obsolete

00:22because they lack the necessary technical specifications to be upgraded to Windows 11.

00:27That, in turn, means there will be a plethora of security issues around the globe,

00:33as well as millions of computers that will have to be disposed of,

00:36and an untold number of businesses, government agencies, and schools will have to purchase new computers to replace their current systems.

00:44There are 400 million computers that are going to enter the waste stream.

00:48That's a disaster, just in terms of the sheer volume.

00:51Nathan Proctor, director of consumer rights group PIRG's Right to Repair campaign,

00:55said on the 404 Media Podcast.

00:58And then, you have people who are going to ignore the warnings and use a computer that's insecure.

01:03So, there's going to eventually be some widespread security problems with these older, unsupported,

01:08no-longer-getting-security-updates computers.

01:11Obviously, migrating from one Windows operating system to another is not a new concept.

01:16This time, however, more than 42% of all Windows users are currently using Windows 10.

01:21By comparison, when support for Microsoft Windows 8 ended, only 3.7% of computers were using it,

01:28and just 2.2% were using Windows 8.1 when support for it was removed.

01:33Another issue with the planned obsolescence of so many computers

01:36is that the carbon emissions associated with mining the raw materials needed to produce a new computer

01:42will have to be increased unnecessarily,

01:45as will the energy and emissions that come with the manufacturing and shipping of all these new computers.

01:50The only hope is that protests, such as Perg's campaign asking Microsoft to extend support for Windows 10,

01:56will work like they did in 2023,

01:59when Google agreed to extend automatic updates for Chromebooks to 10 years.

02:03To cut support for something that is legitimately a flagship product is bizarre.

02:07No one expects Microsoft to do software updates forever,

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