Windows 11 is Coming

[sanch]

ORIGINAL: goodwoodrw
I'm a dinosaur still running Win 7

I'm the same way. I have a partition for Win 7, but these days, it's linux for me. And with wine, I can run most games I want to. Here's my current game menu (If I added the picture correctly).

[zakblood]

windows 11 will be free for anyone on windows 10, but saying that, unless the pc is quite new it won't meet the spec of TPM version 2.0 or CPU either, so everyone can carry on on older machines until it's retired, Microsoft declared it would offer updates for 10 years — until October 2025 and by then your pc's will be broken or un useable anyway.

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/windows-processor-requirements

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/windows-11-requirements

unless things change as plenty of time for that yet if enough of a outcry is made on any of the above statements etc

[Lobster]

ORIGINAL: Greybriar

As far as I am concerned, Windows 11 is nothing more than a cash grab by Microsoft.

I have no need for Windows 11 and will stick with Windows 10.

It's free if you have Window$ 10. No cash. No grab. [;)]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Lobster

ORIGINAL: Greybriar

As far as I am concerned, Windows 11 is nothing more than a cash grab by Microsoft.

I have no need for Windows 11 and will stick with Windows 10.

It's free if you have Window$ 10. No cash. No grab. [;)]

There are legitimate ways to get a cheap or even free copy of Windows 10.

[JWW]

I remember when we were told Windows 10 would be the last, forever version of Windows. That was still being discussed this year, btw.

https://searchenterprisedesktop.techtar ... Windows-OS

As for me, I did the Windows Health Check on my PC, and it says it will not be able to run Windows 11. The PC is two years old. But that's okay, because every 4-5 years I get a new one. So I can see using my current PC 2-3 more years and then getting a Win 11 PC.

[Aurelian]

ORIGINAL: Lobster

ORIGINAL: Greybriar

As far as I am concerned, Windows 11 is nothing more than a cash grab by Microsoft.

I have no need for Windows 11 and will stick with Windows 10.

It's free if you have Window$ 10. No cash. No grab. [;)]

Just like Windows 10

[balto]

I wonder if it does not have any enhancements to performance or whatever, just more spyware and such so lets say if you can vote via PC in the next election - the trojan software in Windows 11 can fix the election.., not that that ever happened.

[vonRocko]

ORIGINAL: goodwoodrw

I'm a dinosaur still running Win 7

Me too![;)]
My computer is also old. I can no longer afford to keep up.[:(]
I also don't have a cellphone, just an old fashioned land line.[X(]
Dinosaur indeed!

[ncc1701e]

ORIGINAL: zakblood

but nothing so far that worked with windows 10 for me hasn't loaded and worked in 11.

Good news, thank you!

[Greybriar]

ORIGINAL: Lobster

ORIGINAL: Greybriar

As far as I am concerned, Windows 11 is nothing more than a cash grab by Microsoft.

I have no need for Windows 11 and will stick with Windows 10.

It's free if you have Window$ 10. No cash. No grab. [;)]

I believe it is called Marketing. Microsoft is planning on making money by "giving" Windows 11 away.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Greybriar

ORIGINAL: Lobster

ORIGINAL: Greybriar

As far as I am concerned, Windows 11 is nothing more than a cash grab by Microsoft.

I have no need for Windows 11 and will stick with Windows 10.

It's free if you have Window$ 10. No cash. No grab. [;)]

I believe it is called Marketing. Microsoft is planning on making money by "giving" Windows 11 away.

Give it away but if it does not work on the customer's current computer then they will have to purchase a new computer - paying for Windows 11 that way.

[boatrigm]

Windows 11 for Intel will only support 8th gen and newer processors. My i7-4790k is out of luck.
Biggest issue for me is my Lenovo Y520 gaming laptop with a 7th gen processor.
Bummer. Looks like spending lots of money in my future or maybe just switch to Linux/Wine/Proton for playing games.

-Mike

[Aurelian]

ORIGINAL: Greybriar

ORIGINAL: Lobster

ORIGINAL: Greybriar

As far as I am concerned, Windows 11 is nothing more than a cash grab by Microsoft.

I have no need for Windows 11 and will stick with Windows 10.

It's free if you have Window$ 10. No cash. No grab. [;)]

I believe it is called Marketing. Microsoft is planning on making money by "giving" Windows 11 away.

How? Windows 10, didn't spend any money after I got it.

[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: goodwoodrw

I'm a dinosaur still running Win 7

Same. And I've got WinXP machine on the floor. And father's old PC with 40 MHz processor, MS-DOS 6.22, and Windows 3.01 (or whatever) is still working too.

[Greybriar]

I spotted this YouTube video: You Probably WON'T Be Able to Use Windows 11, watched it, and thought it would be appropriate if I shared it here.

If what the YouTuber says in the video is correct, I couldn't "upgrade" to Windows 11 even if I wanted to.

[Lobster]

ORIGINAL: Greybriar

I spotted this YouTube video: You Probably WON'T Be Able to Use Windows 11, watched it, and thought it would be appropriate if I shared it here.

If what the YouTuber says in the video is correct, I couldn't "upgrade" to Windows 11 even if I wanted to.

Only 38% or around that will be able to upgrade. I'm not one of them. [;)]

[gamer78]

38% is very big number. It is about US or worldwide?

[berto]

I have no problem running my Windows 10 systems until support ends in late 2025. At that time, I will install Linux on them, as I have done with all of my older systems for the past two decades and more.

[zakblood]

within a space of just a few days, my windows 11 test pc and another of the same 8 years old vintage with windows 10 on it have died a death, ah well can't say i've not had my moneys worth.

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700K CPU @ 3.50GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.5GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 and one with a AMD card
Dedicated Memory: 4053 MB

both overclocked at 4.2 and no issues for years, changed a few HDD in them, changed the VGA cards, added some SSD

so only left with my net pc, one laptop and a old pc connected to a printer in the summer house and my gaming rig, seems i'm going again into the loft and into my bin of spare parts and will again build me something to test with, have more than a few I7 and M/B's left, so a week or 2 i'll be back up and running some more test pc's.

but overall, that's not the point of the post, it's windows 11, can't say i'm impressed, just not worth it for me, there's nothing in the new version that would make me want it atm, as don't use android apps, not interested in locking down the pc more than i already do and not bothered about the new desktop, so in my tests, there's no real speed difference, as windows 10 already uses the same faster versions and the newest memory management tools anyway.

so can't say i'll be installing again any time soon, unless something changes in the beta branch and i think it's worth it....

[samrich]

How much will windows 11 cost?