Windows 11 Releases October 5th, Free Upgrade from Windows 10

[MikeMurphy]

You're on the right track but your logic is faulty;

Kaby lake was the current for laptops right up until it was superceded by Whiskey Lake on August 28, 2018; barely 3 years ago. It would have taken 2-3 months for Whisky Lake silicon to be integrated into laptop models, validated, shipped out to distributors and sent on to retail/etailer shelves and available to buy, so realistically the state of the art was still Kaby Lake right up until the holiday season when new Whiskey Lake latops would have been rolled out (probably rushed out) in time for Black Friday/Cyber Monday and Christmas.

By not supporting Kaby Lake, Microsoft aren't even offering support for Intel laptops beyond about 2.8 years old which will be closer to 3 years for Win11's official launch.

When talking about hardware support, you have to remember that the "current" product cutoff happens when it's replaced by something newer, not its own launch date.

Good points, I stand corrected. The CPU itself was engineered and initially sold many years ago, but wasn't superseded until later.

 

[ThrashZone]

Vista was awful, period. It was never a good os.

Hi,
Win-7 was more shocking coming from vista..
7 libraries was a freaking confusing nightmare at first sight compared to vista/ xp/... lol

 

[dayne878]

Well, I won't be upgrading right away. I first have to turn on whatever security it requires in my BIOS (I just built this computer in 2020 so I know the MB should be compatible), but beyond that I want to be reasonably sure most serious bugs have been squashed. I will probably wait until after the holidays.

The main consideration is that this computer is both my home/gaming computer and my work computer in one (using a VPN for work). So if I experience instability with W11 its affecting more than just my personal life, so I need to make sure it's going to be reasonably stable.

 

[GLD]

I won't do an upgrade, unless it's "required" to change the license from 10 to 11. If the 11 ISO/media is available on Oct. 5th I'll take the day one leap. Noting wrong with Win 10, and I haven't even seen Win 11 yet, but I am looking forward to Windows 11.

 

[ManofGod]

I thought vista was pretty good lol.. but I had a pretty good pc for it I guess. 7 was good, 10 is ok, a bit boring with its blandness. 11 looks good. One thing about 11 is they make you access a sub menu to paste something that you’ve copied. Or how it can get uppity when you change a piece of hardware, like a cpu.There are other annoyances I suppose. Will I switch? I don’t know.. maybe. Might try out Linux again, it’s been a long time since I ran it.

I thought that Vista was much better than Windows 7, at least on my personal machines. However, I switched anyways so...... In my opinion, Vista was probably the best OS they made but, I had 4GB of ram, a Phenom 9500 Quad Core, 500GB HDD and 2 x HD 2900's so, it was good for my use case. Vista Business worked better than XP on the low powered laptop I used to have as well.