Letters

Windows 10 runs my software, so why upgrade?

I feel that there’s a point of view not reflected in the Windows 11 update debate. I have a Windows 10 laptop which I purchased 12 months ago to replace a tired laptop running Windows 7, which itself was purchased to replace a laptop running XP, which replaced a desktop PC running Windows 98 – and so on.

I could accept the pending offer to update to Windows 11, but why bother? I don’t own a computer just to run the operating system (OS). If the OS runs the software I use then that’s all I need, and Windows 10 runs my software without fault, in the same way that Windows 7 did, and before that XP and 98. Some of my software is quite