Friday, December 3rd 2021
Windows 11 a Flop, Survey Claims Less Than 1% Upgraded, Microsoft Improves Start Menu
Microsoft Windows 11, now nearing its third month since release, is for all intents and purposes, a flop. Market research by Lansweeper, which surveyed over 10 million PCs across the commercial and personal market segments, reports that less than 0.21% of the users it surveyed, had upgraded from Windows 10 to the newer operating system. The upgrade is free of charge. There may be several factors contributing to this lukewarm market response, but one of them is certain to he the steep hardware requirements. Windows 11 requires a trusted platform module (TPM 2.0), which disqualifies PCs older than 2018 for upgrades, unless the user is willing to try out workarounds to the limitation. Another factor could be the clunky user interface (UI), a less functional Start menu than Windows 10, and several UI-related bugs.
According to Lansweeper's data, there could be more people running outdated Windows XP, Vista, Windows 8, etc., than Windows 11, and this poses a great security risk, as these operating systems are no longer supported by Microsoft for regular security updates. Windows 10, on the other hand, is eligible for them until mid-2025—plenty of time for people to upgrade hardware to meet Windows 11 system requirements, or to simply make up their mind on switching over to the new operating system. In related news, Microsoft could give the Windows 11 Start menu a functional update. Test build 22509 introduces the ability to add more pins to the menu, or make room for more recommendations. The UI could see many such minor updates.
Sources:
Tech Radar PRO, HotHardware
According to Lansweeper's data, there could be more people running outdated Windows XP, Vista, Windows 8, etc., than Windows 11, and this poses a great security risk, as these operating systems are no longer supported by Microsoft for regular security updates. Windows 10, on the other hand, is eligible for them until mid-2025—plenty of time for people to upgrade hardware to meet Windows 11 system requirements, or to simply make up their mind on switching over to the new operating system. In related news, Microsoft could give the Windows 11 Start menu a functional update. Test build 22509 introduces the ability to add more pins to the menu, or make room for more recommendations. The UI could see many such minor updates.
393 Comments on Windows 11 a Flop, Survey Claims Less Than 1% Upgraded, Microsoft Improves Start Menu
You know Intel-Microsoft work closely, no wonder that AMD didn't get exclusive Ryzen proper support.
When AMD heavily outsells Intel in the free market (DIY) outside of the dirty corporate affairs of the OEMs, the likes of Dell, Lenovo, HP and other crap outhere.
not to mention i had win 11 installed on my 5800x Ryzen and Radeon RX 6800XT for like a week...
and played a game that crashed hard (win 10 never did) and on reboot i get BSOD on my win11 saying " critical Process died " and just restarts... only my win10 will boot n now (both on same drive, so i now it not my SSD) so im done with win11 for @ minimum 6 months, to a year.... they should have waited till Jan-july 2022, but no they had to rush it out just win 10 with some sh!t removed and a new skin.. that look too much like Mac OS to me so Phuck MS im done!!!!
and if you look at alot of default MS drivers especialy for cpu or most if not all (except thos you install like AMD/Nvidia GPU/Chipset Drivers etc) all MS driver still show (2006) as the drivers date with wwin10 or 11s VErsion number ..lol LAzy MFers
I just hate it that the majority of users now is a "beta tester" on default. You got a BSOD after an update? Good luck solving it!
Ive disabled everything in regards of updates and telemetry in W10. I'm still on 1903. Refuse to update. And for good cause. Last update caused my stored passwords in Windows FTP to be removed completely. And those where like 100 stores passwords. Great job!
An update made all the pictures I had disappear, gone for good, the pics folder was empty after. :shadedshu:
I use 3 monitor and zero icons on desktop, I use Start menu in win10 to open my apps over my opened software avoiding the needed to minimize my apps, I am productive, this win 11 start menu its unproductive.
with this Start menu, I will never upgrade to win11.
- Tried it
- Deleted it
- Installed Kubuntu
All my most used programs are multi-platform anyway, and games run via Steam/Proton or WINE, so I'm happy.Windows 10 should keep received updates and should receive a new support period till at least 2035.
We don't need a new Windows other than Windows 10.
Why Microsoft Announced Windows 10 Is 'The Last Version Of Windows' (forbes.com)
The majority of the security enhancements can be enabled in 10, I feel 11 was done just to try and push people to a new UI and also an excuse to make people buy new hardware. (4k monitors to compensate for lost real estate, and newer chips/boards for the higher TPM requirements). Sadly I think Microsoft have longed worked with hardware vendors, it was made obvious to me when all the vendors in unison pulled their Windows 8 drivers when Microsoft decided they wanted to pretend that OS no longer existed.
Can't remember what version of unix but it used CDE similar or KDE
looks alot like windows 95...
Most Gu's have some sort of start menu or the mac / amiga drop down at the top menu
Microsoft has tried to re-invent the wheel and failed since windows 8.
Windows 8 ran pretty well but the crappy start menu and samba issues turned me away.
Windows 7 I had it skined to look like 95 ...
As long as I have a startmenu non of this 7+ bastardized so called start menu I'm happy.
Like many others looking at going to some form of linux. I just like LXDE and lubuntu seems the okayish place.
As we speak playing with LXDE based distros trying to find one I like.
and now to find a replacement for kodi as they have lost the way as well.
But I do the following on Win 10.
Group policy set to check for updates but not auto download.
Install wumgr, and use that for updates, its basically very similar to windows7/8 levels of control. Including hiding updates.
One guy here claims it works fine on Win 11.
Windows11/comments/phwfc9
Its the same move they made with both Vista (rushed-out in a record 2 years) and 8 (3 years was impressive turnaround time, givern how broke it was!)