Windows 10 a "security disaster waiting to happen" noted by ZDNet?

<p>Yes, this is a bit of a non-story. Yes, that old hardware can’t be upgraded, but a lot of it will probably be so old and slow that it won’t run Windows 10 at a reasonable speed, let alone Windows 11, which benchmarks are showing is generally running a little slower than Windows 10 on the same hardware.</p><p><br></p><p>My XP laptop struggled with Windows 7 – it took about 10 minutes for the desktop to load and opening Word after that was another few minutes. The hardware still worked, but it couldn’t realistically be upgraded (original Pentium M with 256MB RAM and 80MB drive).</p><p><br></p><p>My Vista PC could upgrade to Windows 7, because it was lighter than Vista. But it struggled with Windows 8. (Pentium Core 2 Quad, 2GB RAM, 250GB drive, MB couldn’t be expanded further.)</p><p><br></p><p>My current Ryzen 1700 will probably still be relatively quick, but I’m guessing the Core i3-6xxx series machines we have at work aren’t going to be in a fit state to run Windows 10, let alone Windows 11 in 3 years.</p><p><br></p><p>I’m pretty upset with MS about Windows 11 – the stripping away of useful features I use all-day-every-day, like Jump Lists – and the artificial hardware requirements; again, I was behind them when they said it was for enhanced security, then showed that was a lie by allowing it to be installed on older hardware anyway.</p><p><br></p><p>But Ed’s story is the same story we get every time an old version of Windows reaches end of life. Still working hardware can’t be upgraded, because it is too old and too slow and needs to be replaced. It is a shame, I used to respect Ed, but this story is, as you said, just clickbait.</p>