Here Comes Windows 11....

[Bobby Henderson]

Well, it looks like a fairly large number of computer users will not be able to upgrade to Windows 11 when the update is released later this fall.

The minimum system requirements are going up: a minimum of at least a dual core 64-bit CPU, 4GB of RAM, at least 64GB of storage space and a graphics board or chip set compatible with DirectX 12.

Here's the kicker: Windows 11 will not install if the PC lacks a security chip that supports Trusted Platform Module (aka TPM) version 2.0. It's a device that's designed to store login information. Not all PCs have such a chip, especially PCs that are more than 5 or so years old. Of the PCs that do have TPM capable chips, many of those chips will have to be turned on in the computer's BIOS settings. Windows 11 will also require Secure Boot.

People are keeping personal computers longer than ever. I strongly doubt the hardware requirements for Windows 11 will make a difference. Anyone who is satisfied using an old PC that seems to be working just fine will not be in any hurry to upgrade.

[Frank Cox]

Grab yer earplugs, they've cranked all this stuff up to eleven!

[Marcel Birgelen]

I'm wondering why they're even calling the update "Windows 11." There is nothing fundamentally new going on "under the hood." Overall, the vast majority of changes appear to be cosmetic in nature. It's basically a fancy "skin" for Windows 10.

I'll wait awhile before updating any computers I use to to the new OS (if Microsoft allows me to wait). Gotta be sure the update doesn't break anything.

Yeah, this whole thing turns out to be more like a feature update than an update worthy of a real new version number. Then again, what are new versions nowadays? Firefox is at version 89 right now, every tiny update gets a bump of an entire version number, but at least I know on what version I am.

So, I guess there are three reasons for Microsoft to part ways with Windows 10:

- Keeping stuff at Windows 10 forever with only making the distinction in a vague build-number confuses the heck out of people. Meanwhile, the first build of Windows 10 has become a vastly different product than the current build version of the same thing named Windows 10. Yet, there are compatibility issues between the different feature-pack releases.
- I've heard this will be a free upgrade for anybody with Windows 10, but if you want to sell somebody some upgrade, then you better name it differently. I'm not going to pay for Windows 10, if the thing I already have is also Windows 10.
- Last but not least: Apple recently left the "X" behind and bumped their MacOS version to 11, they also introduced round corners on everything...

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

I an just starting to get TMS on Windows 10. Its working fine so far. Customers seem less afraid of 10 now than they did when it was new.

[Bobby Henderson]

I'm wondering why they're even calling the update "Windows 11." There is nothing fundamentally new going on "under the hood." Overall, the vast majority of changes appear to be cosmetic in nature. It's basically a fancy "skin" for Windows 10.

I'll wait awhile before updating any computers I use to to the new OS (if Microsoft allows me to wait). Gotta be sure the update doesn't break anything.

[Rusty Gordon]

Yessireee!!! I have tested Sensible Cinema Software on it and everything just works with no compatibility issues and no need to run anything in compatibility mode. I must say, having seen the keynote and having had hands on it a few days that it is chocked full of brand new features hardly anyone will ever use. In the words of SNL's Fred Armison in drag as The View's Joy Behar, "So What, Who Cares!"

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Windows 11 is going to be released this commimg Holiday season... And I thought 10 was supposed to be the last one... I'll probably wait at least a couple years before I even.try it...

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