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No, I don't hate Cortana, but I despised the digital assistant being part of the out-of-box experience. Rich Woods from XDA Developers likes the changes Microsoft has made to the out-of-box experience, from the prettier and more accessible interface down to the small details like being able to name your machine without going through an arduous process: That finding tracks with the results of a survey of 30 million enterprise PCs by IT asset management company Lansweeper, which estimated that 55% of those PCs would fall short of Microsoft's hardware requirements.

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By my back-of the envelope calculations, roughly 60% of the 1.3 billion PCs now running Windows 10 will be blocked from upgrading to Windows 11 (although the owners of those PCs can install Windows 11 manually).

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This version of Windows marks a major hardware transition, with Microsoft drawing a firm line in the silicon and declaring that the majority of current CPUs will be obsolete when Windows 10 support expires in October 2025.įor the first time ever, Microsoft is releasing a Windows upgrade that it doesn't want most of its existing customers to use. ZDNet's Ed Bott believes Windows 11 is not so much a software refresh as it is a nudge for people to upgrade to newer hardware: For a deeper dive into what Windows 11 is all about, we turn to the wave of reviews and first impressions from experts and critics. It's free, it looks a lot like its predecessor (save for its rounded corners), but it also comes with welcome refinements that make the interface more pleasant to use and a Windows Store that's finally as welcoming for developers as it should have been from the start. In some ways, Windows 11 will feel just like a Windows 10 feature update. The new operating system is both familiar and fresh depending on what you're looking at, and upgrading to it won't be a terrifying experience like upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Instead, the Redmond company has used the now-mature Windows 10 as a solid base and modernized the user interface, focusing on simplifying things. With Windows 11, Microsoft hasn't exactly reinvented its desktop operating system. The result is Windows 11, which sports a forward-looking UI and has the strictest system requirements in the history of the Windows operating system. The big picture: Microsoft once said that Windows 10 was the last version of Windows, but then the pandemic hit, and the company took the ideas encompassed in the unreleased Windows 10X operating system and laid them on top of the now-mature Windows 10 Core OS.

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