Windows 10: Windows 11 is NOT a new Operating System

I don't think enough people are spelling this out.

Windows 11 is NOT real. Windows 11 is NOT a new operating system.
Those of us old enough to remember, will know that Windows traditionally came as a massive upgrade every few years. The upgrade would be huge, new drivers would need to be developed, new hardware purchased and all Microsoft users, were strung out across hundreds of different Windows versions, different patch levels, and difference service packs.

That was until 2014 - when Windows 10 was released.
With Windows 10 - Microsoft under the massive weight of all of the negativity around its poor security, poor reliability, the blue screens of death, the habitual 6 monthly rebuilds to clean out the crap - moved to a model of there only being ONE VERSION OF WINDOWS.

It made perfect sense and has been a game changer. In the past - when someone developed an app or game for windows, or produced some hardware that needed a device driver - they had to test it, and maintain it, across hundreds of different potential configurations of Windows. Windows crashes, slow downs and blue screens of death were the result, and these were not things that Microsoft could address. The sheer complexity of testing compatibility against all these moving parts of Operating system, Service Pack, Patch level, Device Driver, Application was just too difficult.

So Windows 10 over the next 5 years fixed that. App developers, driver developers and testers - now need ONLY test on one version of Windows. The Latest one.

To encourage that, Microsoft had to push hard on the automated updates - they had to offer the updates for free and they had to support a massive array of hardware in one platform.

And it has made a MASSIVE difference. In recent years - Apple has had more security breaches, and patches -than Microsoft has needed. PCs purchased in 2016 in some cases - are working faster now, than when they were built.

We have all benefitted.
My Windows 10 PC built in 2016 has been absolutely bullet proof, never needed a rebuild and is healthier, more secure and more robust than it has ever been.

While Microsoft didn't specifically say that Windows was now going to be released like this, as a service - that was what was picked up from the engineers - and we all came to believe that Windows 10 was the last version of Windows. Some even mistook this message to believe that Windows was going to disappear (which it is not true).

No - so Microsoft have almost entirely rid themselves of the old label of unreliability, and weak security - which is a remarkable feat given the massive variety of hardware they have to deal with (compared to say Apple, who need test only on a dozen devices).

But as the free feature updates were still coming and benefitting all of us - it has been a problem for Microsoft, that they then need to continue to constrain themselves with the limitations of hardware that is nearly a decade old in some cases but still earmarked for supporting Windows.

There were massive security benefits in having a TPM chip but only computers in the last 5 years have had them, there are massive benefits in being able to develop Windows to expect more than 2GB of memory, or for it to expect a screen resolution better than 800x600. How does Microsoft evolve Windows when they are constrained by having to keep compatibility with hardware that is decades old. The answer is they can't.

So at some point Microsoft has sat down, and looked at what they needed to do - and the choices would have been:
1) Announce that the minimum requirements for Windows 10 was going to change, and older PCs with less memory, smaller screens and lacking security features would be dropped!!
2) Continue as they were, with their resources being constantly sucked up with maintaining compatability with older hardware, rather than modernising.
3) Pretend that there is a new version of Windows called Windows 11 - and set the minimum requirements at a new higher level

The first option has a lot of negative press associated with it, the second isn't maintainable for ever, the third - allows the resetting of the baseline of Windows to a more modern standard, gives them a whole new marketing cycle where people talk about the upgrade, and so 3 was the obvious choice.

How do we know this is true - Well you've only got to look at the internal build numbers for Windows. Windows 11 22H2 for example, internally inside Windows is version 10.0.22621.521.
Applications and drivers inside Windows 11 - are not even able to differentiate Windows 10 from 11 - because by every metric that matters this is only a feature update.

Other than this - the difference are cosmetic. They moved the main Start icons from the left to the middle. And some features which were intended for Windows 10 - only got released on Windows 11.

So this is a new operating system in number only. That's a good thing, not a bad thing. Windows 10 has had dozens of continual major improvements and updates since its release - Windows 11 is just a continuation of that, but frees Microsoft up to focus on the new.

I cant complain - I've got a PC I built in 2016 - which runs better today than when I built it, but won't be upgradable to Windows 11 but will get security patches for more than two more years (a decade of support) - and it will continue to run without support if I want after that.
Then I have a newer PC built this year which will probably last another decade.

This is still better than previously :

Windows NT - 1994-2001
Windows 95 - 1995-2001
Windows 98 - 1998-2006
Windows 98 2nd Edition - 1999-2006
Windows Me - 2000-2006
Windows XP - (6 versions between 2001-2005 to 2014)
Windows Vista - 2007-2017
Windows 7 - 2009-2020
Windows 8 - 2012 - 2016
Windows 8.1 - 2013 - 2023
Windows 10 - 2013-2023
Windows 11- 2021-???

So not a new operating system - but Windows as a service, where the only version of Windows available being the latest, and an adjusting of the minimum hardware requirements to expect a 4GB of memory, better screen resolutions, a modern BIOS, a security chip and support for more modern processors.

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