Dimdows 11 -- I Didn’t Realize It Was This Bad ...

Long-time Microsoft watcher Ed Bott has put together a summary of the
winding, bumpy and treacherous road Microsoft chose to follow in its
release of Windows 11
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-should-have-been-an-easy-upgrade-microsoft-chose-to-unleash-chaos-on-us-instead/>.

Honestly, I had no idea it was this bad. First they were going to be
reasonable about it, and offer some leeway for those with machines
just 2-3 years old to keep using them with the new OS. But it seems a
different faction within the company staged a palace coup, and
enforced the hard restrictions we see today. But even the path between
those two states was far from straightforward, with endless amendments
and corrections and just plain backtracking along the way.

And to top it all off, it seems Microsoft didn’t want to leave a
record that the official position was ever other than what it is now.
“We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.”