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Windows 11

Experience the latest Windows OS with a new Start menu, integrated Teams, and gaming technologies like Auto HDR. Improved security with stricter requirements enhances protection, and seamless Microsoft Account integration makes it ideal for modern devices.

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  • Proprietary

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  • Windows
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  1. Microsoft 365 Copilot icon  Compatible with Microsoft Office
  2.  Dark Mode
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  Auto Update
  5.  Support for Nvidia drivers
  6.  ARM support
  7.  Tablet support

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Comment summary: Windows 11 receives limited praise for its refreshed interface, speed, ease of use, and strong gaming and proprietary-software compatibility. Critics more often cite TPM 2.0 and newer hardware requirements, Microsoft-account demands, ads, bloat, privacy concerns, feature removals, resource usage, updates, and compatibility or stability problems. Many reviewers prefer Windows 10, while some remain tied to Windows 11 for gaming or Windows-only applications.
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23C5DA
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Requires TPM 2.0. A lot of older machines won't be supported.

Rong Martin-Siebler ZHOU

That can be circumnavigated. But honestly with the bloating on Win11 any older machine will just die simply by running out of RAM.

bingud
0

slow bloat and spyware. Windows 10 is still better

veddev
1

Worst version of windows ever. Windows 10 is actually better than this one.

Gwrvan Barré
1

Linux is much better that this 🤮💩😵.

Shoji VR
2

unstable and lot of issues, such as recent KB5063878 SSD data corruption/failure issue

and they want to kill windows 10 and force user to use this unstable os? microsoft is keep falling down

cemilaydn9
0

My computer is a Toshiba laptop but it says the processor for windows 11 is insufficient can you help me

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Rong Martin-Siebler ZHOU
5

I respect Windows ability to just make each subsequent version worse. Win XP was slick and efficient for its days. Then we had 7, which is also solid, but the telemetrics stuff started getting out of control. Then 10 came. Bloating in general, not just telemetrics got out of control. Now Win 11 merrily eats up 6GB of RAM idling. Since it is proprietary I have no idea what is under the hood. The processes are also helpfully named 'Windows Host Agent' etc. Microsoft has the best engineers out there. They must have decided between themselves the goal for Win11 is for it to be as bloated as possible so they can generate tons of ad and data sale revenue, and force average users off hardware with reasonable specs to buy new fancy laptops. Solid business strategy I have to say. The strategy just unfortunately involves making Win11 as terrible as possible.

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What is Windows 11?

Windows 11 is the latest major release of Microsoft's Windows operating system. It succeeded Windows 10, and is available for free for any Windows 10 devices that meet the new Windows 11 system requirements.

Windows 11 features major changes to the Windows shell influenced by the canceled Windows 10X, including a redesigned Start menu, the replacement of its "live tiles" with a separate "Widgets" panel on the taskbar, the ability to create tiled sets of windows that can be minimized and restored from the taskbar as a group, and new gaming technologies inherited from Xbox Series X and Series S such as Auto HDR and DirectStorage on compatible hardware.

Internet Explorer has been replaced by the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge as the default web browser, like its predecessor, Windows 10, and Microsoft Teams is integrated into the Windows shell.

Citing security considerations, the system requirements for Windows 11 were increased over Windows 10; Microsoft only officially supports the operating system on devices using an eighth-generation Intel Core CPU or newer (with some minor exceptions), a second-generation AMD Ryzen CPU or newer, or a Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 ARM system-on-chip or newer, with UEFI and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 supported and enabled.

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