Yeah, afaik Windows' own DOS support is made for businesses that need to run old-ass software and drivers.
Non-Intel versions of Windows NT did have a full emulator. Some guy ported it back to x64 from the Windows source leaks, even:
"[Oh no,] Not the vagina-dick man"?
Uhh what? You're about 15 years behind the times, Windows requires a license key nowI stopped normally using Windows after XP, and I thought the "software activation" thing then was BS.
I assume it's much, much worse now?
You're seven years behind the times.
It literally looks like Win 10 with slightly rounded corners and the magical ability to center your taskbar
That's pretty much it. Also some kind of Android emulator built in and an integration with Amazon's app store. I'm not sure how useful that will be but it is interesting to see MS, Amazon, and possibly Google in some kind of strategic alliance against Apple.It literally looks like Win 10 with slightly rounded corners and the magical ability to center your taskbar
It was until Microsoft intentionally broke its compatibility with newer hardware.
Home continues to be "you're not the customer, you're the product" version.
I can imagine the headache this is going to cause for office jobs. They were already using Windows 7 computers to run Windows 10 rather than buy new towers made for 10. Every CEO is going to shit their pants once their IT department tells them they need to spend a fuck-ton of money on new hardware. On the other hand, companies like Dell and HP will probably make bank from all the new contracts they will be creating with these businesses.https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/22544171/microsoft-windows-11-system-requirements-hardware
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Lmao those minimum requirements. Remember how bad the minimum requirements were on Vista? That's now small potatoes compared to 11:
-4 GB RAM
-64 GB storage
-Graphics card compatible with Direct X12
-720p display that is greater than 9-inches
-Internet mandatory (Home version only)
The 4 GB RAM isn't that much of a deal-breaker, since many machines can easily be upgraded to that, but god dang, does Microsoft really want legacy machines to not run Windows 11.
I would've given Windows 11 a chance had it not been for those specifications which sure, I could go out and either build or buy a higher end machine that can take all of that in, but what about everyone else? And by the way, I am not willing to upgrade to anything that will likely chew up more resources on my computer than it does now.
At least Windows 10 will stick around for several more years. After that, I'll probably dump Windows for any Linux distribution.
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LMAO! My computer is apparently not even compatible with Windows 11, and it's only 10 years old, so its not that outdated!
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That is more than enough to convince me to have this computer switch over to Linux in the nick of time.
https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/22544171/microsoft-windows-11-system-requirements-hardware
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Lmao those minimum requirements. Remember how bad the minimum requirements were on Vista? That's now small potatoes compared to 11:
-4 GB RAM
-64 GB storage
-Graphics card compatible with Direct X12
-720p display that is greater than 9-inches
-Internet mandatory (Home version only)
The 4 GB RAM isn't that much of a deal-breaker, since many machines can easily be upgraded to that, but god dang, does Microsoft really want legacy machines to not run Windows 11.
I would've given Windows 11 a chance had it not been for those specifications which sure, I could go out and either build or buy a higher end machine that can take all of that in, but what about everyone else? And by the way, I am not willing to upgrade to anything that will likely chew up more resources on my computer than it does now.
At least Windows 10 will stick around for several more years. After that, I'll probably dump Windows for any Linux distribution.
EDIT:
LMAO! My computer is apparently not even compatible with Windows 11, and it's only 10 years old, so its not that outdated!
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That is more than enough to convince me to have this computer switch over to Linux in the nick of time.
What are you guys talking about? I doubt they're saying that W11 needs 64GB of storange to itself, they're just setting that as the minimum so that companies don't put it on cheap laptops with 32GB of flash storage and then have people upset when there's no way to update the OS because the updates require more space than they have left after installing programs on there (as happened with a bunch of cheap HP and Dell laptops that they put out to compete with Chromebooks).
