Not for the average consumer where power consumption is increasing.
We have global stats that keep telling us households and companies keep using more and more power.
Bullfeathers! Doesn't anyone bother to verify their facts before spewing their nonsense? Where's your personal integrity? Don't you want your statements to factual even if your personal opinions, biases, and desires differ? Would you rather be wrong than truthful? Come on!!!!
@Vayra86 - show us where "we" have stats that say households keep using more and more power.
Here's one for you from the U.S. Energy Information Administration,
Energy use per household has declined
The typical U.S. household today is more likely to use air-conditioning equipment, live in a larger home, and use more electronics than a typical household did 30 years ago. However, average annual site energy use per home has declined. The reasons for this decline include:
- Improvements in building insulation and materials
- Improved efficiencies of heating and cooling equipment, water heaters, refrigerators, lighting, and appliances
- Population migration to regions with lower heating demand
U.S. energy consumption
fell by a record 7% in 2020.
OF COURSE, globally, energy consumption has gone up. NO ONE IS DENYING THAT. The global population is exploding therefore more and more people are consuming energy. More and more factories are needed make products those people need. Infrastructures are moving into more and more areas that previously had no electricity.
But once again, factories are more efficient, using less energy to make each unit. Appliances in our homes are more efficient. We use LED lightbulbs instead of highly inefficient incandescent. Even our power hungry computers, are more efficient when running AND when asleep.
so have you put the latest windows 11 build on a 4th or 5th or 6th gen i5 with no problems??? and no mods or hacks or tweaks or anything and got it perfectly functioning?
What does that have to do with anything? Particularly, how does any of that suggest anyone was FORCED to buy that new hardware and then FORCED to upgrade to W11? It doesn't.
with no issues after running every single update?
FTR, I have never, not once, had a Windows Update brick any of my computers - not ever! I have had a few updates over the years fail to install for various reasons, but the computer kept running. The worse case was a system lockup that was completely cleared by a simple reboot. Regardless, these events have NOTHING to do being "forced" to upgrade to W11 or being "forced" to buy new hardware. So your point is, as related to this thread's topic is, frankly, pointless.
Given you're still running W10 (according to your profile), you obviously won't have been "forced" to upgrade to W11 since you aren't even running it...
On this computer, that is true - as I already mentioned above too. And you are correct - "obviously" I am not being forced to upgrade - thank you for reminding everyone of that. And which, BTW, illustrates my point - so thank you again.
But have you read through this thread to hear what others are implying? Others are suggesting or implying they are either (1) being
forced to upgrade to W11 OR (2) they are being
forced to upgrade their hardware to support W11. Now if (2) is the claim, then I ask, who is FORCING them to buy new hardware? Contrary to their claims, it is NOT Microsoft!
If Microsoft is not forcing you (collectively) to buy W11, how can they be forcing anyone to buy new hardware? Even newer, factory made computers capable of supporting W11 that come with W10 preinstalled, can be -
not "must" be - can be upgraded to W11 typically
for free. So again, who is being forced?
I note I have 5 computers here, 2 are running W11. My laptop I upgraded to W11
for free, because
I wanted to. Nobody forced me. The other was built with more current hardware and W11 in mind. EVERY purchase was by choice. Nobody forced me.
It's weasel wording, not a blatant lie.
If by "
weasel wording" you mean "
marketing weenie hype" then I agree - to a point. I say "to a point" only because multiple independent organizations have verified Microsoft, along with dozens of other IT, manufacturing, retail, government, hospitality/restaurant, travel, automotive, and agriculture companies have all...
...committed to reducing their carbon footprints and setting examples for others in their industries.
Are the naysayers in this thread really suggesting TechRadar, Paul Thurrott, Microsoft, Apple, San Francisco, Berlin, Vancouver, Disney, Hilton Hotels, Walmart, Samsung, Forbes and others are all conspiring to fabricate this story about committing to reducing their carbon footprints? Really?
That said, no doubt "
hype" is very much applicable here too. I would be surprised if any of those companies are anywhere near "carbon-neutral" as some of the marketing "
hype" would like us to believe. But still, several of those companies, including Microsoft, have committed to reduce their carbon footprint by 75% by 2030. Even if that figure is inflated (hyped-up) by 200%, reducing their carbon-footprint (which DOES, by the way, include their "cloud" divisions) by 37.5% in the next 6 years is a significant achievement, even with a long ways to go.