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I just noticed an icon in my taskbar that states "Upgrade to Windows 11 is ready for your PC". Anyone done this?

 

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Been reading some articles since I noticed this and I'm not sure I want to follow through with the upgrade as Windows 10 will be supported until 2025.

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With Microsoft's hideous track record on new releases, I would wait as long as possible before going to any new releases from them.

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I'm avoiding it.

 

With Microsoft's track record of every other release being a turkey I'll wait for 12 (it's like they create a need to buy the very next version):

 

 

 

One of my pet peeves is the way Microsoft changes user interfaces with each release.  It seems that every knotheaded programmer has to impose their ideas of a "better" way to do something on the rest of us. From some folks at Harvard:

 

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

 

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

 

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

 

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

 

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason.  You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.

For some reason you would simply accept this.

 

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

 

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.

 

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.

 

7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.

 

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

 

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

 

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

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Switched over to it when it was made available.  It's no big deal, it's just a ruddy operating system. 

 

Once you figure out the few changes that some mastermind made to the structures (like the start button)

it's not a big deal.

 

Most of what I use it for is to run Adobe Lightroom (photo editor) or one of my browsers to read the news

and other web sites (like this one).  Occasionally I'll build a spread sheet, write an e-mail in Outlook,

or run itunes for my phone. 

 

Frankly I'm O/S agnostic, don't care and don't really use it except to host the programs I do use.

 

I'll probably switch to apple once this lap top gives up the ghost simply because their laptops are lighter.

 

So far it's been absolutely stable and runs fine, but I shut my computer off every evening so it does a clean up

and stays stable for my uses.

 

YMMV

 

SC

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Biggest thing with 10 is the inability to completly stop updates. Never ran updates with XP , never had a problem. Micrososft is like apple with each update new problems come up and stability goes down.

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3 hours ago, Still hand Bill said:

I have stuck with win 7 and when those two computers die, will probably move to a Mac based os.  Never used win 8 and only used win 10 because I had to, still didn’t like it. 

 

This.

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I stuck with Windows 7 Pro, for as long as possible . 

Ship from that to 10, still think 7 pro was the best ..

Will stick to 10 for a while ...

 

Jabez Cowboy

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No.

In the past, different teams produced the successive versions of Windows.
I remember WinCE, then WinME, then WinNT.
Put together, they were CEMENT and behaved as such... except when used as a boat anchor... when they would sink intermittently.

There is no compelling reason for Win11 unless you are a software developer or a fan boy.
It will be a number of years before Microsoft obsoletes Win10, as they have done with Win7 (a real shame).
Quickbooks, Turbo Tax, LaCerte... refuse to launch on Win7 today.

Comcast and Netflix won't connect unless your browser is the absolute latest version... despite the Print Preview bug that exists to this day with all the Firefox versions higher than 83.  I keep a sucky copy of Chrome on my Win7 machine, just for the times when some web site demands the most current browser.  Otherwise, I do a huge amount Print to PDF (PDF24) from the Print Preview, which is broken after FF v83.

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