should i update to windows 11.
hi everyone leo notenboom here for
askleo.com
with an update to an article i published
last year
not long after windows 11 had been
announced but not yet released
in the intervening time windows 11 has
been released and in fact i'm using it
as we speak
the question of course is well now that
it's released
should i update to windows 11.
the short answer is
unless you know of a compelling reason
to do so
no
windows 10 is going to be around for a
long time and there's no compelling
reason in my mind for you or the average
consumer to update to windows 11.
it
is an interesting operating system
it feels a lot like what i would have
classified as a big service pack to
windows 10.
there's some user interface changes that
have met with some mixed results uh
there's a little bit of functionality
changes the most controversial part of
it was they used i believe they used the
naming change from 10 to 11 as their
opportunity to introduce
more specific more restrictive hardware
requirements that's gotten us a lot of
press dealing with the tpm and the
specific processors that are supposedly
supported or not
the bottom line is that the requirements
for windows 11 are actually fairly
confusing
and
in my opinion
they're probably going to change
now one of the important things to
realize that i mentioned this already is
that windows 10 is going to be around
for a very long time
as i record this in january of 2022
windows 10
is expected to be supported until
towards the end of 2025.
so that's close to three years worth of
support for an operating system that
well it's the most deployed operating
system ever it is on
more machines than any previous version
of windows as i understand it the bottom
line is that
because windows 11 doesn't really bring
anything
truly wonderful to the table yet
it kind of rates as i say a big
there really isn't anything compelling
now i will say this and this is one of
those things that is
hearsay
it's lore
it is
not
something that's based in
fact
or science or anything like that
but it is something that a lot of people
have noticed over the years and that's
the every other version curse
here's how it works
if you take a look at releases of
windows since windows xp windows xp
very popular the next version windows
vista not so much
the next version windows 7 very popular
the next version windows 8
not so much
the next version windows 10 now very
very popular it's on over a billion
machines on the planet
the next version
we don't know
if the pattern continues it may not be
the most popular version of windows we
just don't know
i'm not saying that this is something to
be relied on
but it is something that i find
interesting now
windows 11
if you know
you have a reason a specific reason that
you need to be running windows 11 maybe
there's a specific feature that i've
overlooked or that i don't understand is
as impactful as it might be for you
or for whatever reason
or
if you get a new machine that comes with
windows 11 pre-installed
then by all means
run windows 11. the way i describe it is
if you know you know
if you don't know if you have to ask the
question
you probably don't need to upgrade to
windows 11 at least not yet
i hope that's helpful i hope that
clarifies a little bit of direction and
takes a little bit of the of the fud
away from the windows 11 upgrade path
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