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It has been roughly half a year since Windows 11 launched, believe it or not. Last month, the AdDuplex Report released that almost 20% of installations were on the new OS according to data collected via their AdDuplex SDK.

I’m curious to see how that compares to what we’re seeing in the Spiceworks Community when it comes to the organizations you support.

Have you migrated or started migrating your organizations to Windows 11? If so, why or why not?

Have you rolled out Windows 11 in your organization?
  • Yes
  • No but we plan to later this year
  • No plan to as of yet
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No we haven’t yet and it hasn’t been scheduled yet.

We have quite a number of quite “awkward” app’s which work fine under Windows 10 but are likely to cause us a few sleepless nights under Windows 11. We will be starting to test the apps under Windows 11 3rd Q 2022 probably and then aim to start deploying 1st-2nd Q 2023

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same situation^!

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Windows 10 is sufficient. I don’t have time to play around with a new OS that doesn’t provide any added value to my users. My time is being devoted to getting a new ERP system up and running and all the data that must be tweaked and imported, processes updated, reports written, etc. My users need the Microsoft Office suite, email, and a connection to our ERP system, that’s all. The OS is irrelevant. Windows 10 is still supported and provides what we need.

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Due to none of our computers meeting the hardware requirements, I have no plans for Windows 11 until the final Windows 10 EOL date.

Initial pricing seems to point at $650 USD as a starting place for a new desktop (that I would purchase) with Windows 11. For now, with the exception of computers that can’t do their job, that would be $650 spent for very little in return.

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To me, there are so many things I like and don’t like about it. So for, the don’t like list is longer. I am waiting until the like list gets a little longer. I am using it on a couple computers right now and I wouldn’t want to do that to any of my users just yet.

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Started testing it on IT computers, and testing our existing apps. Most likely wont think about the User side of the equation till this Fall or next year. Makes sense to wait for Win 11 to get a couple of build updates under its belt and to work out some kinks.

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I put it on a couple of test machines, including my daily driver, and SP8 which came with it, but I am planning to roll it back on that one at least. Nothing but little glitches and no gains, including the promised one of better handling multiple monitors when docking/undocking. In fact, with my situation of a dock at work and one at home, it is worse than Windows 10 at handling the switch.

We’ll be on Windows 10 for at least another year or two as best I can tell.

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Windows 10 Education users here. Only 40 of our 270ish machines meet the CPU ‘requirements’ for 11. We’ve currently got 6 Windows 11 machines, 3 of which are used by us in the IT dept. I don’t imagine that’ll change any time soon. It’s not really caused any headaches for us yet (2 of us have run since December, just in case anyone brings us a Win11 device), but time will tell.

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Some of the software we use isn’t yet certified for Windows 11. Besides, only a small chunk of our PCs are compatible, the rest aren’t old enough to justify replacing, yet.

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We won’t start testing until we have at least 75% participation rate with our current vendors…since we are a hospital, it may be quite a while before we hit that mark…

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It launched on October 5 2021… It’s been 6 months…

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Yes, we are using it and I am also personally using it. My device was new enough to upgrade to Windows 11, just like the upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 went… seamless!

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Doh! I meant half a year… (facepalm). Fix’T! Thanks for catching that and calling it out.

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Yes just in the last week to most staff. Hasn’t broke anything major… yet.

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Echoing others, have some IT staff on it, most of our hardware would support it, but besides new laptop rollouts in a couple months, no visible advantage to roll it out further. It’s nice, I enjoy using it, but Windows 10 is working great.

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95% of our machines do not meet requirements. We have not had an opportunity to do any testing, but at this point, it looks like it will be closer to Win10 EOL before we even consider the switch.

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Last I tried, I was able to install Windows 11 on non supported hardware by performing a fresh install instead of an in-place upgrade. This may have changed, as I think I did this back around December - January time.

We played around a little with it, but we cannot get FindMe print to work in Windows 11. Back when Microsoft was dealing with the PrintNightmare fiasco, they pushed out several updates that temporarily broke FindMe, but we were able to find a workaround to get it working again. However, it seems Microsoft has baked the fix directly into Windows 11, so our registry/GP workaround no longer works. Until that gets resolved, Windows 11 has been temporarily shelved.

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We have not and we’re not going to. Besides, didn’t I read here a month or so back that they were already working on Windows 12? Maybe they’ll learn their lesson and make 12 more user-friendly again and let the actual users decide if they want to run it or not.

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I would, if I could, but my computer is too old. No TPM module.

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