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Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption (www.neowin.net)
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[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Windows can't be updated in any meaningful way without being rebooted because Windows can't overwrite a file that is in use. This makes it fairly unlikely for a machine to be up for 12 years.

Windows 7 also doesn't "idle in the low MBs" It uses almost 1G at least at startup more if you have apps that auto start and like every OS it caches recently accessed files.