Microsoft announces Windows 11

Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by zeusk on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:06PM (#27626407)

The whole point of DCH iirc was to decouple the rendering and display engine driver from the User/Control/Config interface.

This would basically allow Dell/Hp/Surface to use the same latest Intel/Nvidia/AMD drivers but have their differentiation and config apps updated on their own schedule while the OS takes care of the actual driver components.

so that's a feature not a bug.

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Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by Aerroon on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:48AM (#27628180)

Yes, and in practice it's a pain that forces/highly encourages you to use the Microsoft Store.

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Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by zeusk on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:18AM (#27628328)

Well the initial version of Store (it didn't really improve in iterations of 10) was horrible UX and dodgy state changes. It's essentially just a webpage and a very bad one at that.

The new store that I've been using in internal builds is far more responsive. I believe they will require a Microsoft ID to access it, but other than that I have no complaints about the new version.

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Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by benbristow on Friday June 25, 2021 @06:30AM (#27629011)

I thought the current store was a native UWP app? Am I wrong?

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Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11 by zeusk on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:40AM (#27629482)

Yes, the current store is a very janky UWP app written in HTML and javascript. I believe their original motive was to share the code base between the online store and the desktop client.

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