Posted on 07/02/2021 1:34:45 PM PDT by upchuck
There’s a joke that Microsoft follows a good, bad pattern with its OS launches: Windows XP: good, Windows Vista: bad, Windows 7: good. Windows 8: bad, Windows 10: good. Alas, in keeping with the cycle, Microsoft is botching the Windows 11 launch, and it might wreck an otherwise good OS.
Thanks to a leaked build, a launch event, and a newly released Windows Insider preview, we have a good idea of what Windows 11 will look like now. And for the most part, it looks like Windows 10 with a fresh coat of paint. Windows 11 dumps live tiles, moves the taskbar to a centered view, and handles multi-monitor setups better. But very little exists in Windows 11 that doesn’t exist in Windows 10 in some form. Windows 11 takes what’s good about Windows 10 and improves on it, which is a good thing.
That’s why it’s confusing to see Microsoft completely bungle what should otherwise be the easy part—the launch of the operating system. Don’t get me wrong, the actual launch (as in getting the OS prepared for release) is a difficult process. But we’re talking about the PR launch: telling the world about the OS and what to expect.
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“who said windows 10 was good?”
Not me. Had no choice, business pc. W10 struggles on many apps, temp files will build up and strangle it and give you 20 minute boots, the Office365 Outlook app is just awful (terrible GUI, clunky, just a crap app).
I still miss XP.
Also you can install a complete GUI Ubuntu Linux inside of Windows 11, and run Linux apps side by side with Windows apps.
My Windows 10 (preview channel) automatically updated me to Windows 11. I didn't believe it at first, but sure enough, it's Windows 11. It's actually running on my 9 year old laptop without a TPM and with a 3rd generation processor.
From reading a lot of the technical information, it seems the main emphasis now is on providing hardened hardware enabled memory integrity, and also on hardened hardware enabled credential authentication, hence the MS desire for better hardware.
I imagine that ultimately Microsoft will further differentiate the "Home" and "Pro" editions with old hardware like mine relegated to the "Home" product, while newer and better hardware will qualify for the "Pro" product. In a sense that already is the case, as Bitdefender security is only available on the "Pro" edition of Windows 10, and it requires a TPM too.
I have Windows 7 64bit on my desktop pc.
I have 32gb of ram memory but I noticed that it said 16gb in use only (Control panel> System icon)
It turns out that Home Premium supports only 16gb and I had reinstalled the OS some months back and choose the wrong disc.....
I needed Professional which supports up 192gb memory.
I have a copy and inserted it but it said to use “upgrade windows anytime” when you type in the Start> Search box. So I did and entered my serial #. It took about 10mins and a restart later I had full use of 32gbs of memory.
What this tells me is Windows 11 can be installed on ‘older’ pc’s but Microsoft wants everyone to spend a thousand dollars to but new pc for just some cosmetic upgrade.
Now they are re thinking as many people will not! and I bet they change the requirements.
#9 The new blue screen of death in Windows 11 will be black. Really. Maybe they should add a skull and crossbones.
I am taking a pass on win11, got a win10 laptop 2 yrs ago because my job was moving to win10 and I wanted to be ahead of the curve.
Learned my lesson with MS DOS 4.0. Stood in line at midnight, installed it 4 times by dawn, went back to 3.3 and waited until 5.0 was a year old to make the move.
Did you read mine? I didn’t know until afterward. Pretty good.
I have to use MS at work, but have had Debian on my home computer and laptops for quite a while. It was a little rocky back in the day, getting drivers to work, but now it’s pretty slick.
No need to get Windows 11 when you can make changes to the look yourself.
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Windows 8 was not as fine as Windows 7, but I much prefer it to Windows 10, which induced me to buy a Mac. I still use the Windows 8 laptops I have.
I should have a chance to ping the list later…..
I have Windows 11 installed already. Available now if you’re on on the “Developer channel” for updates.
It’s just seems like a minor update. A slightly different look (more understated), but hardly noticeable. Seems faster! Not one issue since installing. I think it’s a going to be an easy transition for most people.
I had the same thing happwn to me on Dell 8 year old laptop.
The new start menu is loopy, change in search is stupid, thats about = far as I hve gotten. Everything seems to run OK
I ultimately loaded it myself (free upgrade promotion) and have enjoyed it for the most part. YMMV, and I’m sorry it forced itself onto some people’s computers.
#22 Microsoft will have to allow older pc’s as yours would be restricted from future updates unless they grandfather you in.
Windows 10 was an absolute tragedy for me. Totally skipped 8. Prior was nt, 2000 and win7. Those were pretty good.
3 times, all during forced updates, catastrophic failure.
I hear you won’t be able to get updates unless you show that you have been vaccinated. /sarc
I’ll be going back to Mac.
No OS as a service and tight Teams integration for me.
DOS 4 was pretty bad, kind of like Windows ME.
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