From MSFN, starting here - https://msfn.org/board/topic/174208-windows-10-deeper-impressions/?do=findComment&comment=1173580. So what do you think? Whose "fault" is this, the good VMware guys, or the evil MS ba$tard$? (OK, maybe I'm sort of prejudiced.) ========================================================== win32 Speaking of planned obsolescence, a recent Windows 10 update has blocked all versions of VMware Workstation below version 15.1 from running: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/619878 That means that users of 14.x, which was released in September 2017, will have to purchase an upgrade licence in order to keep using software that is far from obsolete, given that even version 10 can run Windows 10 as a guest. ------------------------------------------------------------------ jaclaz Well, this is bordering with conspiracy theories, that would mean that VmWare paid Microsoft to force their (VmWares) users to update to a new version of VmWare, and that Microsoft took the money and did that knowing that everyone will blame them (Microsoft) for the issue. I would attribute the problem more to the usual stupidity (or rather increasing sloppyness/lack of quality control) of the good MS guys, with VmWare "innocent", so that there is not anything "planned". jaclaz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Paraglider VMWare released version 14.1.8: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-W...Mware-Workstation-1418-Pro-Release-Notes.html with this fix: Unable to run VMware Workstation Pro / Player 14.x after updates on Windows 10 1903 VMware Workstation Pro and Player versions 14.x and earlier failed to launch on Windows 10 1903, after Windows 10 KB updates were applied.
One way to construe this is that MS doesn't want to deal with bug reports (or even telemetry) for Win10 1903 based on older VMs/VM softs and thus also poor people (old real hardware) It would probably be handy to check what VMWare's take on all this is -- but then could they be trusted to answer honestly (even if it is a MS flub) as VMWare would profit from the upgrade licenses? I guess since it's VMWare it could hurt some businesses that might depend on it. Any interested individual is probably running a pirated copy anyway. I guess there are still some individuals that actually pay for software but I'm probably biased
