Windows 11 requires new hardware, but delivers hardly any useful new feature.
This is by design.
Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
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Re: Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
#22windows 10 will be here at least for another 4 years, by that point those workstations will likely be upgraded
Do we still need to upgrade every x years, in my opinion we've reached quite a plateau. E.g. my 4 year old phone is still fast enough. Mandating an upgrade by obsoleting the OS is going to add to our environmental disaster, the newest IPCC report says probably +1.5 C more by 2040 at current trajectories. I wish influential environmentalists would start shaming Microsoft.
We are talking about workstations, and 4 years ago the best ones were those with ~8cores, maybe more if we consider start of the threadripper era. First gen threadripper had many issues and those were ironed out over the years. Also the performance per core increased a lot so I don't think the progress wasn't as small.
I agree that phones that are 4 years old are fine for most of the daily stuff, and even haswell PCs are still perfectly OK for the office, but this segment is a bit different and depending on the use case even earlier updates might be useful (like switching to pcie4/5 etc).
btw since I meant 4 years from now it also means that those unsupported workstations are not even new today, they could be running 2+years already, and 6 years upgrade cycle is not that bad
Re: Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do we still need to upgrade every x years, in my opinion we've reached quite a plateau. E.g. my 4 year old phone is still fast enough. Mandating an upgrade by obsoleting the OS is going to add to our environmental disaster, the newest IPCC report says probably +1.5 C more by 2040 at current trajectories. I wish influential environmentalists would start shaming Microsoft.
We are talking about workstations, and 4 years ago the best ones were those with ~8cores, maybe more if we consider start of the threadripper era. First gen threadripper had many issues and those were ironed out over the years. Also the performance per core increased a lot so I don't think the progress wasn't as small. I agree that phones that are 4 years old are fine for most of the daily stuff, and even haswell PCs…
It's pretty clear IMHO that they are not talking about "workstations" in the "high-end machines for special use cases" here, but about "enterprise desktop PCs".
Re: Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
We are talking about workstations, and 4 years ago the best ones were those with ~8cores, maybe more if we consider start of the threadripper era. First gen threadripper had many issues and those were ironed out over the years. Also the performance per core increased a lot so I don't think the progress wasn't as small. I agree that phones that are 4 years old are fine for most of the daily stuff, and even haswell PCs…
It's pretty clear IMHO that they are not talking about "workstations" in the "high-end machines for special use cases" here, but about "enterprise desktop PCs".
Sure, but in that case it's
a) cheaper to replace
b) see updated answer - if these will be running for 6+ years at that point, it's mostly ok to upgrade them