Windows 11 Pt. 2

The last time I posted about Windows 11 was back in July, which is rather slack of me. What have I been doing in the mean time? Developing a deep seated resentment towards anything to do with Project Management via a poorly executed university unit...

SO! Windows 11 is now released and it's... really... nothing... much... from all accounts. Things that have changed / updates on my last post: · Start menu - it seems as though we have even less control over how our start menu appears now, but I'm waiting for programs like Classic Shell to pick up the tab, that is, if they can... ·Microsoft store allowing Android apps... well... not just yet, and no ETA on this yet either.

·Compatibility - I said previously that everything from 4th gen onwards would be compatible as that was the talk of the time - now it appears as though only 8th gen onwards and some 7th gen are compatible. Essentially only computers bought within the last 2-4 years.

Again... who's Windows 11 aimed at? The (mostly) young, fully online generation, a generation that's not me and not the majority of my customers. A generation that is plugged into their screen over breakfast, then continues on the commute to work, then plugs into their work computer, all while not breaking continuity. Windows 11 represents a shift in focus and, while they've come up with some nifty new things for that focus in particular, the rest of us are just annoyed the start menu has moved.

Things that are potentially interesting for me:

Snap layouts - being able to configure a large screen to perfectly contain multiple windows with a couple of clicks - that's kinda cool. However, most of the folk I see either don't know about ,or don't care enough to use, Windows 10s inbuild snap layout anyway - so this will probably be lost of most as well.

Aside from all this - new Operating Systems are always buggy when first released. Even if you were really interested, I would hold off for 6 months, maybe even 12, so they clear those out of the way. Then again... Windows 10 wasn't entirely stable until 3 years after initial release, so there's that... =S