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There's a problem here that I think people (devs) aren't really aware of yet - Microsoft have practically stopped working on Windows 10. For quite a long time n
by origin_path 4y ago
There's a problem here that I think people (devs) aren't really aware of yet - Microsoft have practically stopped working on Windows 10. For quite a long time now, all new bug fixes go into 11 and they aren't being reliably back ported. It used to be that if there was a bug in Windows, and Microsoft fixed it, you could remove your workarounds after a year or three because Win10 updates do get applied and nearly everyone would have upgraded. Now Win10 is being frozen in time modulo security updates, that won't happen anymore. Bugs in Win10 are bugs ~forever more or less, because users won't upgrade.
I hope that at some point Microsoft wakes up and realizes that after years of effort to heal previous userbase forks, it's just gone and done it again. Apps will have to test and support Win10 as the baseline and will basically ignore Win11 only features, or APIs that have bugs in Win10. This situation will last for a very long time now - and for what? Being able to say you have a TPM? Who cares, apps won't be able to target Win11 TPM or not for many, many years.