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Now that Windows 11 is out, are you planning to upgrade to it right away? Microsoft has said that they will support Windows 10 until 2025, since many existing PCs don’t meet the specs for the W11 Upgrade. Or are you one of those guys that would prefer to wait awhile until the bugs are worked out?

Windows 10 or Windows 11
  • I’ll upgrade a soon as I can
  • I’m planning to wait until W10 EOL
  • I’ll wait a year or so before upgrading to W11
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I will start replacing older hardware with laptops and desktops running Windows 11, but for anything that has Windows 10 and is in decent shape I will either keep on Windows 10 until EOL and then replace or upgrade.

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Same as @jfordyce ​ I won’t mind running both 10 & 11 at the same time as long as their aren’t any other factors involved.

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I find 11’s interface to be slightly annoying, and they are continuing to tweak things. I have one Win 11 machine in my house. A new laptop that came with. My wife uses it, she gets along fine with it.

My general advice to people right now at least on the home front is, if it comes with Windows 11, leave it on there. If you have Windows 10 and like it, then don’t rush to upgrade. Once you use Windows 11 for a while and you are comfortable with it, and you want everything to be the same, then go ahead and upgrade.

My personal machines are staying put for now.

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Depends, business or personal, test or production, different factors call for different time tables. For general user population, i will wait until the first service pack before i start working on a new build for our computers. For servers, depending on purpose, i will start playing with 22. At home, when i am bored, and i have not been bored in a long time. So still running 10.

i do prefer clean installs compared to upgrades. Upgrades seem to work about 80% of the time, with no long term effects, its that 20% i dont really want to deal with.

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I will wait a few month before upgrading to Win 11. Haste makes waste LOL.

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I haven’t authorized Windows 11 for general use in our fleet - not seeing much of a business gain by rolling it out right now. I’m running it on my Surface 5 and members of my IT staff are running it for testing and evaluation purposes. But for now, there isn’t much sense to jump on the “Windows that looks like MacOS” bandwagon. I still support a fair bit of legacy hardware, hardware that would get the gong based on Win11’s standards.

Personally, I have seen nothing really special about it, other than MSFT changing how things are laid out. No specific performance gains. No compelling features that are of any use to me. In fact, I bought a higher end computer for my work and it really wanted to install Win11. Denied.

There’s rumor that Android apps will run natively on Win11. I’ll believe that when I see it.

That leaves the Teams facelift. I hate Teams.

This reminds me of when MSFT tried to market Windows 2003 as a follow on to 2000. When MSFT did their little launch event, it was basically substantiated as an upgrade from WinNT. So for all of us that jumped on 2000 early, 2003 was sort of a buzzkill. Yeah, that was ages ago, but it just proved to me, yet again, that line from Finding Nemo, Nigel the pelican:

“Hi there. Sorry if I took a snap at you at one time. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat.”

And Redmond has to keep churning out software…

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I sound like a broken record, even to myself.

I have no computers that qualify for 11, so unless and until a machine needs replacing, I’ll probably be sticking with 10 until its EOL.

That position may change when I see the following in a vulnerability announcement.

“All versions of Windows prior to 11 are affected. 11 is not affected because of the underlying TPM 2.0 and later generation CPU required by 11.”

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Windows 11 for consumers is fine at this time. For example, helped sis-in-law get a new Asus gaming laptop. Of course it came with Win11 installed, and it’s not worth going back to Win10. She loves it.

For our business, our most critical software vendor doesn’t support Windows 11 yet, so we’re holding until they give the go-ahead. Otherwise, we haven’t identified anything that should cause us problems. Testing on one machine has been totally uninteresting (so smooth going so far). The strategic plan right now is to hold off on mass migration until Q4 2023, at which point most of our fleet will meet full hardware requirements. New business PC’s as of right now would get imaged back to Win10 (again mainly due to that software conflict) if they don’t already have it pre-installed.

The maturity that Windows 10 has at this point is a really strong point for it. Although W11 isn’t much different under the hood, it’s enough to break some things here and there. We also only have about 20-25% of our PC fleet that meets all hardware requirements.

The initial AMD performance boondoggle would have potentially impacted us, probably only noticeable under heavier workloads, but still.

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Will require a substantial hardware refresh to even be compatible with Windows 11, Based on that I can’t see it happening until 2024 at the earliest

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We’ll probably wait a year until the kinks are worked out. Hopefully that’ll give us time to find a SKU for volume licensing under whichever program they end up sticking it under. Most of our PCs are 6+ years old and should probably be replaced, so the timing will work out well.

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I’m working up GPOs for Windows 11 to get things closer to how our users expect them to be. Once that’s done, I’ll roll a die to see who the lucky test subject/users will be, and then any machine that can take the update will be getting it. I’m only expecting moderate to severe amounts of backlash when they can’t find IE anymore.

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We have a few editing PCs that meet the requirements but I don’t see any benefit to deal with the headache of users trying to get used to it looking different.

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Don’t fix what isn’t broken.

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I’ve had my fill and then some.

No desire to ever touch W11.

ChromeOS, Linux and/or macOS sure thing…

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I’ve installed on one of my laptops. camera wouldn’t work at all until a recent update(this week). So Teams, and all video conferencing apps were a no go.

I’ll wait out until it proves to be stable and most apps we use work as expected. Several software vendors still don’t support it and have sent us emails to hold off.

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I like Windows 11 since I got the newest Surface Laptop work laptop and so far so good. As for the 400 plus Lenovo’s in our enterprise, I’ll wait until the end of the first quarter and revisit. I learned from the win 7 to win 10 migration that waiting a few months gives you time to test it on a couple of computers from different departments beforehand especially accounting.

We also learned from the win 7 to 10 migration to setup a group policy to prevent the upgrade popups and block any users from manually pushing the upgrade and block the peer-to-peer upgrade so it doesn’t kill your bandwidth. I would imagine the same will go for Win 11.

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I couldn’t care less about Windows 11. Windows 10 is fine, my PC still works and runs everything - even modern games. I’m not about to throw a perfectly functional piece of hardware in to a land-fill site, in support of this destructive and wasteful lunacy. How on Earth Microsoft is getting away with this when the whole of western society is so heavily focussed on green agendas like recycling, renewability, longevity etc (love 'em or loathe 'em), is completely beyond me

As for the work systems, I suspect that will be very much driven by other criteria such as security, client perception of security, compatibility, compliance - etc etc. There are no plans as of yet and I don’t feel any compelling drive to make any - because for us (as I suspect is the case for many others), it once again requires binning a large quantity of perfectly functional production desktops, laptops and probably servers

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I’ve been on Win11 for a few months already, and have been testing it out extensively at work as well. The only issue I had was in one specific game (DCS World) while I was running the Developer Preview, although that got solved after doing a full wipe and reinstall. Zero issues apart from that.

At work I’ve not had any issues with Win11 what so ever for my use. Granted, I mostly work in webwindows and/or on an adminserver through RDP, so I could quite possibly run a Raspberry Pi and still be able to do my job. We’ve also brought a few users onto Win11 to test various software, although we met an issue with AutoCad Inventor having to be ran as administrator in order for it to function properly and not crash. Whether that’s due to Win11 or it being an AutoCad-product is probably something we can discuss until we’re blue in the face.

As for going full Win11 at work: In due time. We run a lot of specialty software that needs to be tested before we’re moving over, but for regular office-people it’s very much an option that will happen with the natural flow of replacing systems over time. For our mechanics and such it’ll take more time, due to the nature of the software they’re running.

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At work, we are going to wait a year or so before moving to Windows 11.

We WERE going to wait until Windows 11 was finished but Windows 10 goes EOL in less than 4 years so I guess that idea is out. :rofl:

For my personal use, Linux doesn’t care how long I ignore Windows 11.

I may move to Windows 11 on my gaming PC since it is ONLY used for gaming and the interface doesn’t really matter.

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