Microsoft Stops Windows Updates—Turn Your PC Into A Chromebook

Do you have to transfer to a Chromebook?

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Microsoft’s security nightmare is coming true for greater than 200 million Home windows customers. In simply 25 days you’ll be “susceptible to cyber threats, reminiscent of malware and viruses.” And chances are you’ll have to pay a charge to delay that cyber cliff edge.

Consumer Reports says Microsoft is appearing hypocritically by “arguing that Home windows 11 is an important improve to spice up cybersecurity,” whereas mandating that solely PCs with sure {hardware} specs can improve, consigning the remaining to recycling bins and landfill.

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However there’s now an fascinating new twist on this downside. As noticed by Windows Latest, a used PC distributor is providing to “flip unsupported Home windows 10 {hardware} into a brand new product class,” whereas criticising Microsoft’s “deliberate obsolescence trick.”

Again Market says “we refuse to observe a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of completely good computer systems find yourself within the trash as e-waste, the quickest rising stream of waste on the planet. So, we gave them an up-to-date, safe working system.”

Whereas we now have seen a number of campaigns pushing Linux in its place for stranded Home windows 10 PCs, Again Market’s fascinating twist is Chrome OS Flex.

The reseller says that is “excellent in the event you largely use your pc for on-line duties like e-mail, streaming, Google Docs, and video calls. Chrome OS Flex is a free model of Google’s OS that turns your outdated PC or Mac right into a Chromebook-like machine.”

Chromebooks have turn into a budget and easy options to PCs, and so this can be a neat answer. it’s additionally a pleasant twist to the Microsoft versus Google struggle going down elsewhere: Chrome versus Edge, Bing versus Search, Copilot versus Gemini.

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Again Market says Chrome OS Flex “is extraordinarily light-weight, straightforward to put in, and runs properly even on older {hardware} with restricted RAM or storage. It boots quick, updates robotically, and may be very beginner-friendly.”

From an ironic safety perspective, it additionally comes with “built-in virus safety and encryption.” One thing to think about while you’re bracing for a brand new PC buy.