Editorial, the concerning microsoft marketing push

Hi all.
I’d usually shove a rant on my personal but I may as well post here.
With all the issues and bugs on the windows 11 updates from last month even though it does appear microsoft have resolved if not all of them the majority at least, it is concerning the push they seem to be doing in general.
I have noticed this since the xp days.
I remember my first upgrade, dos to windows 95 was no brainer.
Windows 98 wasn’t stricly necessary but I did it because why not.
Windows nt and vista I completely skipped as well as windows 8.
Windows 7 was a great improvement.
Windows 10 was free but yeah I had issues to and well eventually went there.
Now I am gearing upto get a new system which I guess since my one is really old I do need though at least I can afford a new one.
I know many that can’t easily handle this.
Back when I was starting on this journey I was 20 and a bullet proof youth.
The world was my oister, and if it went wrong I’d just reformat and move on.
I am now 42, middle age or at least the new middle age at least.
When I was 20 that was 50 but aparently not now.
Covid probably rappidly caused me to evolve and the events as maybe it did to others however maybe it would have happened anyway just not as fast.
It is disheartening and saddening that we seem to have push after push.
You can probably see the marketing stratigy I guess for a business point of view or in some case a gaming and or security point of view.
In practice I suspect the average user could care less about if I have tpm2 or not.
In my opinion even though it makes security scence discarding a lot of our systems in favor of us getting a new one is at least an environmental disaster wating to happen.
I mean a lot of our systems are still good.
For me I agree this unit is old but it still works and I am a home user.
I did at one stage have work as a test contractor but that was at least a couple years back.
My requirements haven’t changed much.
I guess I could do with a faster cpu but honestly My program configuration hasn’t changed much.
The last tool I added was thorium and while that was this week, the last time I even made any serious modifications bar removing skype the week before was at least 4 or more years ago.
I understand that the idiot I was before was not of sound mind and my fiddling had to end at some point.
Point is, I think microsoft has lost it on the mind of the average jo.
Especially those born close to the end of the last century or at the start of this one.
In my case being the last of the generations born in the 1980s I believe we are call mellenials or something like this.
For myself I know a world before the network, before ai and my parents know a world before computers even existed.
I was never born as part of the borg or in the matrix.
I remember a time when humans were humans.
Maybe its why I resist this push up and up so much.
On top of this without a job and without much of a normal life I see and or rather have no desire to do anything but what is needed to survive and stay safe at a minimum.
For me thats a secure brouser, mail client, and a couple things.
My dad is a heavy office user but I am not.
I do have an old version for reading files but it really matters little to me.
What I am concerned about is how things are pushed.
What is worse are all the really disabling bugs going through the windows systems.
The promised features that don’t make it etc.
Issue is and I am sure a lot of us can testify, especially generations like myself we have had enough!!!.
We have no desire to play the latest and greatest.
Heck I haven’t even bothered yet with ai though that may or may not changed.
I have spent time removing and shutting down all the extras because they have been forced on us like an invasion.
I don’t care if they are good, they have been forced and pushed at us.
There is no need for this, its back firing a lot I feel.
In the end maybe there needs to be a system for home users and a system for businesses.
Home users do not need the latest we need a stable desktop and a stable system.
We need a secure experience for brousing, checking mail, chatting and playing games.
We have no desire for anything else.
Windows 10 is not perfect, but the shell is stable enough for what I need.
I can brouse the web and do what I need.
True there are extras but I barely use those extras.
There are so many issues with windows 11 that if it weren’t for the end of life and the unsupporting of office and several other things I wouldn’t concidder upgrading.
I mean my dad has a 10th gen pc, luckily in the pipe before windows 11 support was removed.
I am undecided.
Do I take the chance I could be randomly hacked into or get the sure chance of 50% that microsoft will probably break my system with an update
With all the issues about of late and the fact even with the insider program microsoft don’t get it right with the added rumor that they don’t necesarily listen to their insiders that well I am unsure.
Point is, I have no desire to use windows 11 on anything at all.
I will because I must but this really is not good.
When A new system upgrades I want a really good reason bar security and force to upgrade.
Every time I get an upgrade I prepair for the worst and I should not be thinking like this.
If I ring support with the bad experience I have had, I just won’t use it anymore.
If this is the way microsoft treats its customers and users, count me out of ever upgrading again!
That in of itself is concerning.
In fact its only that I have invested in so much microsoft and I administrate so many microsoft enabled systems that I don’t quit.
But if I could travel back in time I’d warn myself to go linux and skip windows alltogether.
I’d appreciate comments