I can't wait to see if "Device Manager" still uses the same Windows 95 GUI.
Microsoft announces Windows 11
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#122Sorry for the not very constructive comment but it looks like ass. Like a B grade KDE theme.
OS aesthetics just seem so bland and meek these days. I think Win7 Aero/OSX Lion/Compiz cube thing was the peak and after that everything became homogenized and boring. I want my computer to look cool, goddammit
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#123Developers can use their own payment systems, and MS take nothing. That's a bit of a kick in the teeth to Apple.
Absolutely. Microsoft doesn't have a large existing Windows Store business to protect, so why not make Apple's life harder? I think it's also the solution that best meets the reality of apps in 2021. Big third-party devs like Netflix and Amazon will opt out of in-app purchase entirely before giving a cut to the platform owner. May as well let them use their own payment system so users get a better experience than sig…
> Microsoft doesn't have a large existing Windows Store business to protect,
This is how you GET a large existing Windows Store business.
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#124Getting rid of tiles and similar seems like a substantial improvement, and might address part of people's complaints about Windows 10. The most important question, though: is Windows still "evergreen" with free updates, or will people have to buy Windows 11? The latter would mean we can't count on Windows systems being up to date. I was happily looking forward to the day when software could just support Windows 10 an…
Windows 11 will be a free upgrade: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22546801/microsoft-window...
Looks like that news just came out. Glad to hear it.
Now let's hope it's an automatic upgrade for as many Windows 10 users as possible.
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#125I honestly was expecting more "innovation", more daring decisions and deep convictions that "this new way", even though it might get some backlash, will prove to improve the wellbeing of it's users, even if they don't know it yet. I haven't seen anything like that since the days of Steven Jobs and it kind of saddens me. Have we reached a plateau in tech? Are we just up for making more of the same, just a little diffe…
I was hoping 11 would get rid of a bunch of old Windows backwards compatibility cruft. Make Windows 10 the long-run version and Windows 11 the forward looking one. Almost like what Apple did with Mac OS X.
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#126> " Microsoft is also integrating Microsoft Teams directly into Windows 11, for both consumers and commercial users. " Not that I have any objections to Teams per se but attempting to drive adoption by bundling got Microsoft in trouble in the IE era; didn't they learn their lesson? Either way, probably the first thing I'll be doing after a fresh install of Windows 11 is uninstalling Teams.
Doesn’t Windows 10 come integrated with Skype? This would just replace that wouldn’t it.
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#127Sorry for the not very constructive comment but it looks like ass. Like a B grade KDE theme.
OS aesthetics just seem so bland and meek these days. I think Win7 Aero/OSX Lion/Compiz cube thing was the peak and after that everything became homogenized and boring. I want my computer to look cool, goddammit
At least they aren't trying to make everything as white and minimalist as possible...
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#128So many questions… Will Win10 users be able to upgrade to Win11 for free or will they have to buy it? What’s the end-of-life date for Win10 now? Will the minimum hardware requirements be increased? Will this be used as an opportunity to make backwards-compatibility-breaking improvements? Are they actually going to fix the whole UI or just 80% of it and leave the remaining 20% as sedimentary layers of previous UIs? An…
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#129So taskbar extends horizontally and places icons in the middle, which means: 1. It creates unnecessary visual clutter in the right and left sides and takes up valuable space. 2. Users will have harder time clicking to start button. I’m having hard time seeing what is UX benefit of this?
Why does MacOS do it?
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#130Developers can use their own payment systems, and MS take nothing. That's a bit of a kick in the teeth to Apple.
No. It normalizes OS vendor maintained AppStores which is a huge deal for Apple. The only way to avoid them now is to install Linux.
Windows already had a vendor maintained App Store, though. It will just actually be useful now.