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"Looks like a decent article. OTOH, I immediately take a dislike to any and all articles with titles including the phrase: "Everything you need to know" because it's inevitably NOT true, I still have questions at the end. But being an IT guy, I guess that's to be expected. "

Yes, I thought that also. Advertising.

"Any moment now I expect it'll be "Things Microsoft doesn't want you to know about Windows 11", or even better, "You can make Windows 11 work right with JUST THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK"..."

Esp. the former.

Glad to see your input here.

I have come to really appreciate and look forward to your in-depth comments and contributions to the Windows threads. Thanks so much for all the thought and effort you put into your posts.

I've used every release of Windows starting with 2.0, not only related to my professional work, but also as my home workstation, either by itself, or in combination with MacOS and Linux (and for a few years, NetBSD). I wrote device drivers for Win 3.11 (WfW), 95, and 98. (I drew the line at ME.) I did massive amounts of audio processing work on Win2K, WinXP, and Win7. I still have Win7 as a VM for some of that.

And you know, Windows does just fine for nearly all of the things I've used it for. And I say that as one who is fundamentally a Unix-head.

If Microsoft ever gets rid of their boneheaded Marketing people, realizes that most of their users were perfectly happy with XP/7, and stops dorking around with the UI, they'll leave 90% of the complaints about Windows in the dust.

Because under the hood it's really a pretty darn good OS. Granted, IMO the time has come to ditch the NT kernel and move to a Linux kernel -- but if the UI followed the XP/7 model, nobody would mind.

Ah, well, time will tell what Microsoft does with 11. It's really 10.5 not really worthy of a major bump, but since MacOS went to 11, Windows had to follow. The TPM2.0 requirement is the one thing that makes 11 really different from 10.

Maybe MS will jump to 12 before Apple does. LOL