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<p>On 8/31/25 09:59, Tony Godshall wrote:</p>
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Remember netbooks? MSFT did a whole low-cost licensing
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<div dir="auto">I had an Asus eee. The storage was really small
and wore out quick.</div>
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might turn out <br>
that most of the end user benefit of the "endof10" trend
is that MSFT <br>
decides to back off on EOLing and/or growth hacking for a
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<div dir="auto">10 was supposed to be the ultimate, that Windows
would be 10 forever with no more major-numbered updates, just
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small win for each user but a large benefit <br>
in total which I have no problem with claiming credit for.<br>
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<div dir="auto">Maybe explain this a little more?</div>
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<p>Paul Krugman explains it best, in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-general-theory-of-enshittification">https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-general-theory-of-enshittification</a></p>
<p>(as many people as possible please archive a copy of that since
it's on Substack which is unavoidably on the enshittification
cycle)</p>
<p>Platform companies can only turn up the value extraction after
they have lock-in (or at least a cooperating oligopoly like
Google+Meta in the ad business). As long as the fraction of MSFT
users who could realistically switch to Linux is high enough, MSFT
can't move to the next stage.<br>
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