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Microsoft support for Windows 10 officially ends today, but a third of Steam players still use it | VGC
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would be awesome, but the Steam Hardware Survey also reflects that the majority of users just want to use the thing that simply works. Low-end components and 1080p have dominated those charts for years and years now. For that 97% of users stuck on Windows, you can be sure that almost all of them will just click "upgrade to 11" and be done with it. Sounds like 2/3 of them are already there, the remaining 1/3 are probably waiting til the last minute, or they are in Europe and they get to wait an extra year.
This is being offered in the USA, too, you know. You have to submit to logging in with a Microsoft account and allowing them to back up your system preferences to the cloud.
Secondly, the onerous TPM 2.0 requirement is actually what is going to stop a lot of those low-end computers from upgrading. I recently was helping a friend with what seemed like a relatively recent machine and I was shocked to find it still has a BIOS and not a UEFI and I had to redo my installation disk to support MBR partitioning instead of GPT partitioning. People like that will be SOL and simply won't be able to upgrade, even if they want to.
Source? My understanding has been that the EU is forcing Microsoft to allow this option, but only if EU users submit to the requirements you mentioned. I have not heard about this being extended to US users. I was able to sub to Extended Security Updates, but I have been assuming this is because my VPN shows me in Europe.
EDIT: Okay I pulled it up myself. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates Sure enough, they are allowing it for everyone. I guess I already had the syncing set up? I've always just used Win10 with an account and manually turned off all of the OneDrive stuff, I guess Windows has still been backing up settings without my knowledge?
Glad you found the info yourself, but your version of Windows will still register as a US version. Being behind a VPN doesn't change your OS fingerprints, especially since a VPN is layered on top of your OS, and MS essentially has direct access to your OS underneath that VPN layer. Unless you're running your VPN on your router and all your traffic in and out of your router is pushed through the VPN, then it might make a bit of a difference.