2021-06-19, 20:24 | Link #1 |
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Windows 11
Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more
"Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 operating system has leaked online today. After screenshots were first published at Chinese site Baidu, the entire Windows 11 OS has appeared online, complete with a new user interface, Start menu, and lots more. The new Windows 11 user interface and Start menu look very similar to what was originally found in Windows 10X. Microsoft had been simplifying Windows for dual-screen devices, before canceling this project in favor of Windows 11. Visually, the biggest changes you’ll notice can be found along the taskbar. Microsoft has centered the app icons here, cleaned up the tray area, and included a new Start button and menu. This updated Start menu is a simplified version of what currently exists in Windows 10, without Live Tiles. It includes pinned apps, recent files, and the ability to quickly shut down or restart Windows 11 devices. It’s really a lot more simplified than what exists in Windows 10 today. If you don’t want the app icons and Start menu centered, there’s an option to move them all back to the left-hand side. Coupled with the dark mode that’s also available, and Windows 11 starts to look like a more refined version of Windows 10 than something dramatically new." See: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/2...ots-start-menu |
2021-06-23, 00:35 | Link #2 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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What happened to Windows 10 being the "last version of Windows" and just building on it? Guess that got put to the wayside, heh.
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2022-01-25, 05:19 | Link #6 | |
Sleepy Lurker
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Though...technically it should be possible to burn the bootable W11 image on a flash drive or DVD and install it on an upgrade-unqualified PC on boot, but, as expected, you'll be missing on a lot of W11 features (especially security-related) and you'll have little to no Windows Update support for hardware that MS has written off as too old. Now, if PC parts weren't so god***n expensive nowadays I could have gone ahead with a total upgrade, but I am afraid it'll cost me twice to twice and half times more than what I paid for my previous custom rig. For now W10 does the job flawlessly. Only when regular software (and I suspect games will be the first to do this) starts to roll out with the "requires W11" caution will I have to bite the bullet and scrounge up the money for a top-down new rig.
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2022-01-25, 12:22 | Link #8 | |
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2022-02-19, 14:18 | Link #11 |
Speedy Sea Cucumber
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Philadelphia
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Honestly I really like Windows 11 so far and its been ridiculously stable on two Ryzen systems I run it on. I'm running 5700G on one though because I'm not even trying to get a discrete GPU in this market.
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2022-07-20, 00:23 | Link #12 |
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Report: Microsoft will return to releasing new Windows versions once every 3 years
"Microsoft is planning yet another big change to the way it updates Windows, according to a report from Windows Central. Rather than updating a single version of Windows for many years as it did with Windows 10, Microsoft plans to return to a schedule where it releases a new major version of Windows roughly once every three years, putting a hypothetical "Windows 12" on track for release at some point in the fall of 2024." See: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022...every-3-years/ |
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