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Microsoft announces Windows 11
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Re: Microsoft announces Windows 11
#172Now is the time to abandon Windows. I don't know what can replace it right now, for non-technical users, but the market is ready for an OS that isn't tied to hardware (MacOS) and doesn't require as much expertise or effort as Linux variants (especially when running specific software). Microsoft is here with Windows 11, integrating teams into the OS, because they want to shill it, not because it's what users want. The…
> "Now is the time to abandon Windows. I don't know what can replace it right now, for non-technical users"
???
Complaint: Microsoft have spent years adding many features and even people with no expertise can use it. This is, somehow, bad.
Suggested course of action: Abandon it.
Complaint: There is nothing else comparable, because everything else has fewer features is harder to use, and can't run software people want to run.
> "the market is ready"
The market is still giving money to Microsoft hand over fist. Consumers have basically run to Android phones, iPads, Chromebooks, Kindles, Alexa devices, macBooks, and away from desktops entirely. What are you looking at which suggests it's ready for a change of consumer desktop/laptop OS?
Re: Microsoft announces Windows 11
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's ironic how often HN discusses various software development methodologies, release early-and-often, etc. But Microsoft slowly iterating on the Settings panel over time is seen as a bad thing.
If they're iterating on this at all it's at a glacial pace. The settings and control panel workflow has been broken since Windows 8.
They are iterating; the Settings panel gets more settings on every release. The first version on Windows 10 was incredibly sparse.
It's also fair to say that there is a novice/expert divide -- Microsoft wants the settings panel to be as simple as settings on a mobile phone. That's great. However, occasionally I need to revert and diagnose the Wifi driver on my cheap Chinese mini laptop and I need a more powerful UI than most average people are never going to need.
At this point, I can't think of a setting that my parents would need that isn't there.
Re: Microsoft announces Windows 11
#174Getting 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…
I found a link to a tool[0] that checks your PC compatibility with Windows 11, but it seems that many many people with powerful devices are getting a "No" answer. [0] https://twitter.com/_h0x0d_/status/1408075658350108674
Looks like AMD systems might mostly be coming back as "This PC can't run Windows 11."
> Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0
Possibly most AMD motherboards don't have TPM integrated? I don't know a lot about TPM though.
Someone said...
> enable tpm in your bios i did it and it worked for me, I have a 3080, 5800x, 16gb of ram
EDIT: My motherboard (Asus Prime X470 Pro) lists TPM as a separate module you buy, but the connector is present. $12 module, for example: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1237446-REG/asus_tpm_...
The manual does list an fTPM setting as well, but I have not tested that yet.
Re: Microsoft announces Windows 11
#175Pop-up file previews with spacebar in Explorer please...? That's my #1 pain point when moving between Mac and Windows. It's so annoying that the spacebar does nothing.
There is an app for that "good" feature.
Windows has an admirable amount of API hooks, so there's presumably an app for everything.
That's not an excuse not to improve base Explorer, though.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
That hospital is dumb and will likely face issues in the near future then. Win7 isn't supported by Microsoft since early 2020, which means no more security updates. Given hospitals are getting more and more frequently targeted by ransomware... Well, we'll see how that goes. There's still win8 and win8.1 to worry about though, and win10 also has LTSC releases that stay supported for at least 10 years IIRC.
What I don’t get is hospitals buying things like MRI scanners, with Windows based “controller” with no upgrade path. The hospital, and the manufacturer, knows that the version of Windows they’re running will be EOL before the hardware, yet nobody ask the manufacturer how they plan to deal with that fact. The promise of Windows 10 being the last Windows could have but an end to that nonsense.
> ...with no upgrade path.
The manufacturer of the MRI machine doesn't care. In their mind the "upgrade path" is to buy a new one. That might support the current iteration of Windows + their drivers until the next Windows is released. Sure it's nonsense but the hospital can't just not have an MRI machine. They need one and someone will capitalize on that need.
Re: Microsoft announces Windows 11
#177> " 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.
safari/iMessage/Facetime/Maps or every default app on iOS? or any preinstalled and uninstallable app on Android?
I don't use any of safari/iMessage/Facetime/Maps and, gladly, they are sitting quietly in the corner. Don't think Teams stuff will behave like that
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#178Not a fan of the Android apps installable and discoverable onto Windows...but through the Amazon appstore. Weird, and I'd much more prefer installing to PC from Google Play itself.
Do you really think Google would allow that?
Honestly, yes. Someone else mentioned Google Play Services being a probable point of contention. Overall, with Surface Duo, Microsoft Launcher and Google's work towards making Flutter along with the leverage and developer interest they'd gain through having the Windows install base using the Play Store, it seems like a fair relationship.
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#179Hmm, nice improvements, but is it just me who doesn’t care about them at all? Most of them feels like change just for the sake of change, but not an actual improvement.
> change just for the sake of change, but not an actual improvement.
That's a lot of software change. I couldn't care less about aesthetic changes in MacOS, windows, android, xbox, but they're all forced on the users no matter what. If I had the choice, I'd still be using whatever android version my galaxy s3 had, the windows 95 UI, and the Mac OSX UI. But the easiest way to make people want something new is to make it look new I guess
Re: Microsoft announces Windows 11
#180So to summerize what they have announced (so far) - * A new look task bar. Centred similar to the macOS dock by default but lacking the ability to position on any other screen edge? * A new start menu design * Windows have rounded corners * Some built in apps such as the Xbox app and Microsoft Store have been redesigned (Xbox Game Pass and xCloud built into the Xbox app) * New touch keyboard (SwiftKey?) with improved…
> A Microsoft account and internet connectivity is required for Windows 11 Home setup
Looks like I'll be skipping windows 11 and any future windows iterations if this is unavoidable