Upgrading from Windows 8 to Windows 10 didn’t take a lot effort. But Microsoft has had an uphill battle attempting to persuade customers to improve from Windows 10 to Windows 11, and it seems that the corporate is popping up the strain — even when your PC doesn’t qualify.

Reddit person Woopinah9 reported that Microsoft pushed a full-page commercial for Windows 11 to his Windows 10 PC whereas he was working. The downside? Even the advert acknowledged that the PC was ineligible to improve. The implicit message was that the person wanted to purchase a brand new PC.

Here’s the scenario proper now: Windows 10 will attain the tip of assist on October 14, 2025. Consumers will be offered extended support to permit them to go previous that, however Microsoft hasn’t stated how a lot it’ll cost. Businesses might want to pay $61 per year. And the mess that was (and is) Windows 11’s hardware requirements signifies that there can be a number of customers who will fall by way of the cracks, because the Reddit person clearly has.

So what are customers imagined to do? A complete host of Reddit commenters noted the contradiction: Microsoft is encouraging them to improve to the newest cool factor, then telling them they’ll’t have it. In some sense, this is similar message the PC trade delivers with every new generational improve: Look how briskly this PC runs in comparison with one which’s three years outdated, or 5 years outdated. Go purchase it!

Microsoft’s guidelines for the next big thing, an AI PC, are equally imprecise: a Copilot key, an NPU, and Copilot itself. Microsoft has but to verify a requirement that the PC be capable to processs a given variety of trillions of operations per second (TOPS), a unit of measurement for AI processing. And, after all, as most silicon distributors will let you know, tens of millions of “AI PCs” have already shipped with powerful GPUs that can perform AI operations rather than an NPU. But these aren’t actually AI PCs…or are they?

The swap to the following main model of Windows 11 and AI PCs could certainly be groundbreaking. But if Microsoft goes to attempt to persuade shoppers that they should abandon their funding in Windows 10 and improve to an AI PC working Windows 11, the corporate must persuade customers of some great benefits of doing so and inform them particularly what they’ll want to realize that. So far, the corporate has completed neither.