Is Windows 11 worth the upgrade?

ID10 Delly10  August 28, 2024

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Millions of people seem to think so.

If you want to "Test Drive" Windows 11 you can create Virtual Machine on your Windows 10 computer using VirtualBox or similar.

Then you can decide to make the leap. Also if you Do upgrade and you don't like it, you have 10 days to revert your computer back to Windows 10.

Oracle VM VirtualBox www.virtualbox.org

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As stated, Windows 10 is supported until October 2025. Paid support may be available after that.

My laptop today got a full screen prompt for me to download Win11, and I had a hard time trying to get past it.


Don't want that? There was another thread quite recently on how not to see that .. target feature update.

Prettier? Hmm, that's subjective. Much harder to 'skin', it seems.

All my PCs are now on Windows 11 with no issues including a 2014 Dell laptop having non-compliant hardware on which I forced the update.

Win10 market share is still about 70% compared to Win11 of about 26% as of April 2024.

Win10 has held in the 70% range for the last two years or so, while Win11 grew from the 10% range to the 26% range (at the expense of Win7/.

Ref: Desktop Windows Version Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats

It will be interesting to see what Win10 does over the next year and a half before the magic date of Oct 2025.

My guess is it will still be well above 50%. Switching to Win11 if you can is just not compelling, and if you 'have' to buy new hardware is even less compelling.

I run Win10 on technically incompatible Win11 hardware and have a real nice Xeon 8core CPU system with 128GB of RAM and see no reason to junk it.
I put Win11 in a Virtualbox VM to play around with and basically it is a big yawn.

So if I have to pay hush money to M$ to keep Win10 going I probably will. Cheaper than buying a new PC.

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