with windows 11 finally being official
here is everything you need to know and
we'll start from the most noticeable
and end up with the under the hood
changes you probably
wouldn't have noticed do you feel like
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starting with microsoft's new visual
language there's an emphasis on glass
i mean semi-transparency from the
rounded corners to the pop-ups even to
the radio
buttons it looks nice there are new
animations for interacting with apps
like maximizing windows and more
noticeable minimize animations too
though the biggest example is the new
start menu
it seems to have switched from a
resizable dynamic element
to a static element where the only
customizations allowed
are the content the scaling and the
placement
you always have a 6x3 grid of pinned
apps at the top
and your recommended section underneath
that which can show you three things
recently installed most used apps as
well as recently opened files
you can choose which of these three are
visible or hidden
but they'll always appear in this
section they don't have their own tabs
and even if you disable all three
options the section will remain with a
link to enable them in the settings
which in my opinion is quite lazy
programming but it looks nice so i won't
be too critical
you can't resize the start menu's height
with or how many icons appear
it always looks the same besides what
apps you choose to pin
and the color based on your theme and
background your account options look
like this
and your power options look like this
your programs list is moved over to this
button here and now looks like this
you can also have multiple pages of
pinned apps personally my favorite is
the snaps layouts
all you have to do is hover over the
maximize button for a couple of seconds
and it will show you a bunch of screen
layouts and then you can click to add
your window to one
like the fancy zones app the next big
change is the addition
of widgets you get a little bit of
finance weather news and sports
is customizable in terms of size and
placement and what you see
is based on msn but that's not even the
worst part
you actually need to be logged into your
microsoft account to even enable them
which is a big no-no i do not support
microsoft locking down features
to people who log in in fact i
appreciated the fact that you could
completely use windows 10
without a microsoft account with the
exception
of the windows paid store apps like
forza and hvec
codecs but forza is on steam now and you
can just use vlc
so you could feasibly use the pc without
any logging in
forcing a microsoft account increases
unstoppable telemetry
requires a password login and is just a
bunch of hassles
so when it says continue with limited
experience if you don't need an msn feed
you won't have a limited experience at
all but in better news there is no more
forced cortana
rejoice the cortana app remains but the
windows setup and taskbar are not using
it anymore
the search option remains but as always
you can just start typing in the start
menu
so the search button is redundant for
people with muscle memory speaking of
useful voice assistance unlike cortana
microsoft implemented native multiple
voice assistant support which will allow
voice assistants
besides cortana to function natively in
windows
i think you can already set up alexa to
a small extent
but seeing the google assistant right on
the taskbar would be very appreciated
being able to control smart lights or
play music with google voice
would actually be the one use case i
would use a voice assistant on the pc4
besides asking stupid questions and
seeing how they answer
according to circle care the banana
plant and herbaceous plant
not a tree because the stem does not
contain true woody tissue
that's why bananas are not technically a
fruit but it's an herb
maybe i'm getting too far ahead of
myself i mean this is microsoft after
all
if you have multiple physical monitors
windows will try to place apps in more
natural places and reset them
when you reconnect or disconnect
secondary monitors speaking of monitors
if yours is hdr then windows will take a
feature
from xbox and attempt to convert sdr
content
into hdr content but they still haven't
fixed the washed out look on 8-bit hdr
certified panels
like my lg b7 and the aegon super ultra
white here in the studio
even though the panels have 800 nits and
400 nits respectively on the topic of
xbox features the direct storage
api requires an nvme ssd to boost gaming
performance
windows will copy files from the ram to
the gpu memory
this is similar but different to
nvidia's implementation which features a
game api telling the gpu
to load files directly from the ssd to
gpu memory
and decompress them without utilizing
the cpu at all
keeping with gaming windows 11 has
native support direct
x12 ultimate api although i'm pretty
sure windows 10
already had this feature as a feature of
a previous update
and this becomes a little bit of a theme
with windows 11. microsoft describes
brand new features and they have already
been implemented into windows 10.
two examples of this is spatial sound
support
and wi-fi 6e support in the way of
native things though
microsoft has stopped including skype 3d
viewer
and paint 3d on new installs but they
are still available from the microsoft
store
speaking of they have introduced a new
store you can now search and install
android apps like tick tock and have
them run on windows
without an emulator another feature is
alleged ability to install
android app packages also known as apks
but again this functionality wasn't
working in our dev copy
however a new installer that is working
on our build
is the win get package manager which
allows you to install an app with no
hassles it's kind of satisfying
you can use wingate search to find
programs in public cdns
and win get install to download and
install without a single click
in most cases speaking of command lines
windows is transitioning
to the new windows terminal which is a
single app that allows you to run
powershell command prompt and even linux
subsystems
it's seamless and looks very modern it
allows multiple tabs
overall very nice windows 11 feature
updates will be released
once per year instead of quarterly and
will still receive
monthly quality updates tablet mode has
been replaced with
s mode apparently and it's a whole new
edition of windows which only runs
windows store apps
but even more importantly for touch
devices running windows 11
a swipe keyboard finally microsoft has
also removed a few features that nobody
ever used
or should have used like internet
explorer the app and file history
timeline
and the wallet really begging the
question of why did windows ever have
these things in the first place
windows also has a new setup menu or an
out of the box experience if you prefer
finally we have a few changes to finish
up hardware scheduling is enabled by
default big little cpus
seem to be properly optimized you can
move the taskbar to the left
so it's not forced to be in the middle
if you don't like that the search menu
will try and add experiences to the
search
like if you search for the weather or
calculator
new sounds in windows very soft and then
new wallpapers new windows logo new
icons
added padding in windows explorer by
default and finally moving over more web
executables
to microsoft edge and edge view 2. teams
is now
edgeview based instead of electron based
electron is chromium based
anyway guys that is all the features and
differences between windows 11
and windows 10. this is sort of like a
change log and do let us know in the
comment section below
did we miss anything and also let us
know in the comments
what is your favorite difference between
windows 11
and windows 10 besides the uh different
ways microsoft is
going to get telemetry enabled but i'm
pretty sure that's going to be nobody's
favorite thing just like in an explorer
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