Microsoft announces Windows 11

Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by nsriv on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:52AM (#27619378)

I think Teams integration is more of an acknowledgement that video-calling and workplace collaboration is a default usecase for desktop computing (like email, calendar, calculator, text editing).

>They are making claims about it being more performant, but that's hard to imagine when considering their promises for backwards compatibility.

I can run Windows 95 programs on Windows 10, not sure where the knock is coming from on backwards compatibility.

>Here comes another UI overhaul instead of simply fixing the trash menus

From the leaked ISO, the menus are much improved and overhauled. Sure, I want a modern tabbed File Explorer too, but it's clearly being worked on.

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Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by bun_at_work on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:55AM (#27619433)

The knock on backwards compatibility isn't a complaint about backwards compatibility, per se. It's about how so much of the OS is held back due to that support for old software.

The trash menus I'm referring to, while the language is a bit strong, are how there is no unified design throughout the OS. It reeks of implementing new features halfway and rushing it out, since most of what the user sees is now "new".

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Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by imbnwa on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:16PM (#27626054)

Their screenshots only show the cool new bling, I wanna see all the instances where its still the same Win2K UI

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