Windows 11 reveal

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There are more people watching Apple Events than Microsoft Events. Even Microsoft Surface Events have low viewership.

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There are more people eating ice cream than apples. Apples have lower eatership compared to ice cream

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I admit i have not bothered googling it - but is this a free upgrade to 11 when it comes out? Or do i have to fork out for a new licence?

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I would believe that Windows 11 is a free upgrade for laptops & desktop computers which already have Windows 10 installed.

I hope Microsoft offers Windows 11 as a standalone upgrade or full O/S install as well.

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That would actually be cool. I run 10 on a laptop

I’d like a new OS.

Does anyone even use The term OS anymore? If they do it’s been around 30+ years afaik

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I used to work tech support, I can confirm OS is very much still in use.
I didn’t use it with customers though, as most of them were not tech-savvy. I’d usually ask for the name of their device to determine the main OS, and then say something like “an Acer, I see, they run on windows. Do you know whether it has windows 7, 8 or 10?” And if they didn’t, I’d ask them to describe some of the features I knew would vary depending on the OS.

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The general consensus on Windows 11 so far mostly seems to be, “oh God, not again.” I could care less what my OS is so long as it runs my apps. I’d use Android if it ran Photoshop and Lightroom.

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There is some lag and stuttering in the live stream due to multiple connections to the live broadcast.

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Android does have Lightroom, actually :smiley:

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I wont be installing it, until all the bugs are ironed out with the patch they invariably do a couple of months later. My machines got so much crap on it - i can garuntee my upgrade wont go smoothly!! haha.

Theres about 200 games installed as well - so a clean install is a no no for me.

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Yes. Not exactly useful, but it’s there.

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the video editor on windows 10 that replaced the moviemaker software is simple but maybe a little too simple if you get me lol (its a little confusing but i’m a bit of a dumb ass so meh,

hopefully it will be improved upon

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Hopefully they didnt go full Ballmer on this one and make it a tablet focused OS again lol

Microsoft needs a win on this one, it cant be every other OS release being decent with macOS gaining ground

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Looks like they’re up to their old monopoly abusing tricks again.

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I don’t like the task switching bs. I don’t need my open apps and programs hidden behind an icon. I want to know what I’m running. I play games. Running 50 hidden apps is dumb as hell. I also don’t want my computer to remember my phone history, because I don’t have dementia and don’t want sneaky people to see what I’m doing on other devices.

Also not a huge fan of the over-stylized Apple-like taskbar. Don’t like it on macs and won’t like it on my PC.

And Teams is ■■■■ and I don’t want any more forced bloatware.

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Widgets are also ■■■■ if you can’t have them on your desktop. That’s their only useful feature on phones. I don’t need or want an extra newsfeed. Plus, it looks just like everything we hated with Windows 8.

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“It’s the same gestures you use on your trackpad today”
No, I don’t use a trackpad because I’m not a damn hobo. Honestly the best part of this video so far is the background music. Windows 11 looks like a budget Apple. And two wrongs don’t make a right.

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I think win 11 was meant for touchscreen devices.

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Yeah, just like Windows 8.
It’s like Windows doesn’t realize lots of people actually do prefer Windows over Apple.

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