This comment from the previous article is great and so descriptive of the frustrations of modern computing.
When did we go from adding PC-derived capabilities to cellphones to make them suck less to borrowing terrible ideas from cellphones to make PCs suck more?
Whenever that was, we should really time-machine back there and put a stop to it.
In the history of the terrible ideas, who thought that was a good one? Even people who don’t care about computers don’t like this. How did so many designers get hold of so many moron pills all at once?
What’s the R.E.M. reference?
I suppose they think it would make them more money somehow? If I’m understanding this correctly, they’re saying that if you have a new computer (August 2015 and forwards) they’re going to refuse to support the processor on older versions of Windows. So goodbye to custom and powerful machines? Ten seconds of googling seems to say that people who like gaming aren’t going to be happy with this.
It was mostly just for my own amusement, but was thinking about the frequency of processors and how fewer people care about that these days now that computers have gotten “fast enough.”