Windows 10: Windows 11 confirmed in a new Microsoft support document

Microsoft is set to announce its new operating system “Windows 11” alongside the new Windows app store on June 24. Although the company hasn’t officially shed any light on what it intends to reveal, we’re pretty certain by now that Windows 11 will be positioned as the next generation of Windows.

With the number of teasers and leaks, including the most recent developer preview build leak, it’s hard not to be confident of that fact. Despite the leaked build and number of official teasers, there are many people who believe that the leak from China was fake and Windows 11 doesn’t exist.

If you’re still doubting the reports, Microsoft has accidentally published a new support document that confirms Windows 11 is real. Thanks to the Github listing, we can see that Microsoft’s Azure documentation has already confirmed the existence of Windows 10 successor.


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While this leak seemingly confirms Windows 11 will co-exist with Windows 10, it doesn’t reveal anything pertaining to its global launch schedule.

We’re yet to discover if Windows Insiders will receive the preview builds on the same date as the announcement. Although we’d hope Microsoft would synchronize the preview build launch with the official event, we can never be sure with the tech giant.

We also don’t know if the stable builds will be released in October. There’s a possibility that the update will ship during the holiday season on a range of new devices from OEM partners.

The release date of the stable build depends on the telemetry data and feedback from Windows Insiders, but Microsoft is not going to rush the release of the new OS.

Thankfully, we only have three days left to wait before Microsoft reveals all.

Windows 11 rumours


Windows 11 leak has already confirmed a subtly redesigned interface is in the cards and it would change the alignment of the Start menu and taskbar buttons. Like Windows 10X, Start Menu and taskbar icons are now centered, but users can always relocate everything to the left-hand side from the native settings app.

Some of the important Windows 11 changes include rounded corners for Start, Windows Search, menus and other windows. Microsoft has also updated legacy features like Control Panel and Device Manager with rounded corners, and a touch of Fluent Design’s shadow effects.

In addition to these cosmetic improvements, Microsoft is also believed to be working on new gesture controls and improved window snapping experience, according to leaked build and documentation.

Microsoft has yet to comment on the leaks and rumours as of this writing, but it will be interesting to see what the tech giant has in store for users, other than the leaked Start Menu and rounded corners.

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Microsoft Confirms DirectX 11 to Accompany Windows 7

Microsoft's Ben Basaric, product marketing manager for Windows products, confirmed to PC Games Hardware that the next major update to the DirectX API, DirectX 11 would accompany Windows 7, the next major consumer operating system software by Microsoft. This, overwriting his own statement given to the website earlier that he wasn't sure if DirectX 11 would be ready to ship with the OS upon its launch. Furthermore, he also indicated that Windows Vista will have access to the updated API, although not sure at what point in time.

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Microsoft Botches Up UEFI Support for Windows 7 on ASUS Motherboards



Microsoft suggests updating to Windows 10 to patch Windows 7

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MICROSOFT HAS confirmed a potentially lappy-borking problem that it won't be fixing, because Windows 7.

Woody Leonhard, the respected Windows columnist, points to a problem involving Asus motherboards, which also appear rebadged in a variety of other manufacturers' machines, and the activation of UEFI Secure Boot for Windows 7 in a patch KB3133977.

Short version: install update, welcome to Borksville, population you.

Both Asus and Microsoft acknowledged the problem. Microsoft entitled the article "BitLocker can't encrypt drives because of service crashes in svchost.exe process in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2", but we prefer to just call it "Trevor for brevity."

The firm's advice was that it's an optional update, leave well alone, you'll be fine, or alternatively turn secure boot off.

Then Microsoft did a silly, silly thing.

It moved the update from 'optional' to 'recommended' and anyone who reads this site regularly will know what happens when Microsoft does this. That's right boys and girls - it makes it automatically install, unless you've specifically told your machine not to.

So now, if you have one of the affected motherboard and you keep your security updates automatic like wot Microsoft recommends, then your machine will stop working properly.

We should add it's not permanently bricked, but it will take some mucking about in the BIOS to fix and that's a pain even for an experienced computer user.

Microsoft has, by offering a workaround, suggested heavily that it won't be fixing the problem, though we have asked the question, so expect a response in about a fortnight.

But the real kicker is this piece of advice: "Note The Secure Boot feature is supported in Windows 10. To learn more about the security advantages of this feature and about the upgrade path from Windows 7 to Windows 10, go to the following Windows website"

Holy toledo, this company really knows how to rub people up the wrong way.

After all - if the advice is to manually avoid the update or move to a version of the operating system where there's virtually no control over updates, then Microsoft is dealing in massive contradictions.

A more cynical site would suggest that it's yet another example of Microsoft running Windows 7 into the ground and adding built in obsolescence to encourage quicker updates. But we're not that sort of site.

Its the patching to force secure boot that is the problem win 7 does not support secure boot
hence it borks systems and well microsofts answer is Cactus >your Asshole > insert

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Changing the default font on Microsoft Word 2010 has no effect on new pages

Perform the following steps to set the default font for new Microsoft Word 2010 documents.

1. Right click the "Normal" Style on the Home ribbon and click Modify.
   
2. Change the font to Times New Roman, 12 (or whatever you would prefer).
   
3. Select the "New documents based on this template" option.
   
4. Click OK
   
5. Close and reopen Microsoft Word to confirm.
   

For Microsoft Excel, perform these steps:

1. Select File menu, Options item.
   
2. Select the General category.
   
3. Change "When creating new workbooks, use this font"
   
4. Click OK to confirm
   
5. Restart Microsoft Excel as instructed.