Couldn't it also just be that the hardware manufacturers / OEMs finally managed to successfully arm-twist someone in MSFT into declaring a new version, in order to intentionally obsolete more hardware?
It's hard to do that on the "rolling release" Win10 model, which is actually why I liked it. There was sort of an implication that if it was "the last version of Windows" then I probably would be fine with my current hardware for quite a while.
But major version upgrades have always had the risk of your hardware going obsolete with them.
Just smells like an excuse for forced obsolescence to me.
It's hard to do that on the "rolling release" Win10 model, which is actually why I liked it. There was sort of an implication that if it was "the last version of Windows" then I probably would be fine with my current hardware for quite a while.
But major version upgrades have always had the risk of your hardware going obsolete with them.
Just smells like an excuse for forced obsolescence to me.