Hardware & Technical windows 11 report
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How'd you get Win11? I thought it wasn't out yet...
A development build got leaked a couple of weeks ago.
Edit: Apparently a preview build was officially released today.
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the beta came out today. To get it, you have to sign up for Windows Insider and then join the Dev ring. You can do it all from within Windows Settings Update/Recovery (look on bottom of the left).
I did an in-place upgrade ... it seems to have gone without a hitch, all my settings and applications were kept in place and so far everything seems to working. The only problem I had was my ethernet adapter, though it appeared as working in Device Manager, could not get an IP address, but uninstalling and reinstalling it seems to have fixed the problem without a reboot.
Only had this installed for a couple of hours, but so far the biggest thing I can say is ... looks like Mac OS
I did an in-place upgrade ... it seems to have gone without a hitch, all my settings and applications were kept in place and so far everything seems to working. The only problem I had was my ethernet adapter, though it appeared as working in Device Manager, could not get an IP address, but uninstalling and reinstalling it seems to have fixed the problem without a reboot.
Only had this installed for a couple of hours, but so far the biggest thing I can say is ... looks like Mac OS
For decades, I've lived happily by the "never buy a new Windows version on release, wait for the first SP" rule.
Signing up for a BETA???
Now that, right there, is truly master epic levels of masochism!
I salute you, sir.
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well, someone's gotta test it out I suppose. Less buggy than Odyssey alpha(beta)
I'm half joking with that last comment, but actually now that I think about it...
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maybe MS finally decided to wise up and stop trying to support the last decade of hardware with each new OS. Hanging onto the legacy has held them back in some ways. Pure speculation on my part. But as long as they keep the Windows 10 updates going for the next 4 or 5 years, other than maybe the direct storage and auto HDR features there may not be a big reason to change. Just get it with new PCs I suppose. No big deal.
That's a pretty low bar to clear!well, someone's gotta test it out I suppose. Less buggy than Odyssey alpha(beta)
Ugh new windows time already? Pass. Wake me up when they cut support for ten.
It does feel kind of quick for a new version. I thought they said windows 10 would be the last version ever Though, the upgrade path on the beta was really very simple, it played out just like a regular Windows feature update. The UI has been refreshed but I'm not seeing major, significant changes quite yet. Even the task bar being centered can be changed back to left-side with a simple options change. There's a real lovely Dark theme included.
Though, the upgrade path on the beta was really very simple, it played out just like a regular Windows feature update. The UI has been refreshed but I'm not seeing major, significant changes quite yet. Even the task bar being centered can be changed back to left-side with a simple options change. There's a real lovely Dark theme included.
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Yup, i remember MS saying the same. No more new versions, just rolling updates.
Maybe they discovered that this didn't bring them as much money.
99% of my gaming is on my win 7 machine. Built a win 10 machine 12 months ago, it has 2 games on it and maybe 24 hrs runtime.Let me know when they start selling Windows 7 with updated hardware driver support. Would buy.
Guess I'm not that smart.