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Plan for Windows 10 EOL and discounted old laptops
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Must be sent to e-waste? Seriously?
That may be the play I guess. Monitor these kinds of places. They are probably going to have some good days.
When I was working as an IT contractor for a California High School district, I remember replacing the windows 10 machines myself with newer prebuilts that met the windows 11 requirements. My boss told me to throw them all into a pile, and when I asked him if there would be upcoming auction or liquidation of the spare parts, he gave me a weird look.
He then told me, "Yeah, I know it's a lot of e-waste, but these were bought with public money, so it's straight to 'reclamation'. No one can sell, buy, or take these. The IT department would be in trouble."