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austinjenna wrote:

You misunderstand.

The have the POTENTIAL to brick ANY PC with Win10, I never said they HAVE done such thing.

MS does make it clear that they can DISABLE AND/OR REMOVE ANY OR ALL "FEATURES", software, or disable incompatible HARDWARE as they see fit.

MS AND INTEL have made it very well know they WILL NO LONGER SUPPORT OLDER "LEGACY" TECHNOLOGY IN FUTURE RELEASES.

Your PC as of right now IS "older Technology" even if you bought it yesterday whether you like it or not.

Potentially this means that even thought there may not be any problem with your PC right now, ANY future "Creators Update" may not support your hardware and result in either your PC not being updated further (I HIGHLY doubt this since they have FORCED "updates")OR your PC failing to boot to Win10 or a big message telling you your hardware is out of date and Win10 is no longer supported by your PC and won't boot..

They HAVE the power to do this and gullible people HAVE let this come to pass.

Geez, paranoid a bit I guess. I suppose that whatever phone you are using can be bricked as well, at any time but yet you probably still use it.
The reason for 'forced' updates are for the folks that simply refuse to update and are 10 versions behind and complain when they get a virus.
Sorry I cant live my life being worried about stupid things.

Nope not "paranoid" at all, just a lot more REALISTIC perspective from a person that does MUCH more than simply look at Email, Facebook, twitter or randomly surf for stupid pictures and or stupid news.

At work, I am in charge of setting up highly integrated PCs in embedded high tech devices. A PC that decides to update, reboot or update then quit working AT THE WRONG TIME could have potential consequences..

At home, I highly customize my PCs with software and hardware that I have bought over the years.. All of the software, there is NO "direct fit replacement".. Even a lot of the older hardware I have, there isn't a lot out there to FULLY REPLACE it.

With MS at the helm they have to SOLE power to tell you that you NEED to replace the PC when ever they feel like it..

The path IS clear in what MS is wanting to do, as of right now, MS and Intel ARE moving to the UEFI "secure boot" platform as the FUTURE.

What this means is eventually, all Intel chipsets will only have UEFI secure boot option, no "legacy" boot option will be available..

It IS getting hard now days to find new system boards that have legacy boot option.

Win10 at this time supports UEFI AND LEGACY BOOT, down the road it WILL be ONLY UEFI.

Additionally, MS has made it extremely clear that they ARE no longer supporting a lot of older legacy PC hardware going forward. Older Processors and chipsets support WILL be eventually REMOVED from Win10..

What does that mean?

Simple, once MS stops supporting legacy boot (non UEFI), ALL NON UEFI system boards most likely no longer be able to boot to Win10 (remember, MS is no longer planning to release any other "version" but to "refresh" your PC with Creator Updates)..

I can tell you this, UEFI secure boot is buggy and has created a lot of hassles for companies like mine that build products with Embeded PCs..