Windows 11 Rolls Out From October 5, 2021

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Microsoft has announced Windows 11 will begin rolling out from October 5, 2021, onto "eligible Windows 10 PCs", and machines that come pre-loaded with Windows 11 will be available for purchase. Microsoft says that eligible devices will be offered the upgrade by mid-2022.

That means new eligible devices will be offered the upgrade first. The upgrade will then roll out over time to in-market devices based on intelligence models that consider hardware eligibility, reliability metrics, age of device and other factors that impact the upgrade experience. We expect all eligible devices to be offered the free upgrade to Windows 11 by mid-2022. If you have a Windows 10 PC that’s eligible for the upgrade, Windows Update will let you know when it’s available. You can also check to see if Windows 11 is ready for your device by going to Settings > Windows Update and select Check for updates*.

[blogs.windows.com...]

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[IanCP]

After some little difficulty where Windows 11 told me that my fairly recent desktop build wasn't really compatible, I was finally able to install Windows 11 on a spare drive.

I didn't spend a long time on it, but there was nothing there for me. The old Error Code 0xC00D426A when copying videos over still remains which was my sole motivation for testing it.

Build 1803 causing copy "Error Code 0xC00D426A: Error reading from the network %0 over LAN"
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For anyone experiencing install hardware problems:

How to Bypass Windows 11 Installation Requirements? Install Windows 11 on Any Computer
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After some little difficulty where Windows 11 told me that my fairly recent desktop build wasn't really compatible, I was finally able to install Windows 11 on a spare drive.

That's still the insider build, of course, and i'd like to think they'd be ironing out those bugs. ;)

Having delved into this more closely, I really don't understand MS taking away much liked features, unless they were a security vulnerability, of course. MS has failed to explain its reasoning, imho.

i plan to take the update to a non-critical machine and to see the pitfalls in action. I'm sure there will be.

[IanCP]

That's still the insider build, of course, and i'd like to think they'd be ironing out those bugs. ;)

Yes it was.

i plan to take the update to a non-critical machine and to see the pitfalls in action. I'm sure there will be...

Consider doing what I do - mount it on a spare old HDD, then just switch drives in and out. I have a couple of those Simplecom HDD Bays which make it dead easy

Google:
Simplecom SC314 Internal 5.25" Bay Mobile Rack 3.5" SATA HDD Backplane Enclosure

[added] I swoop on any discarded external USB Drives and remove them from their cases - check them with Crystal Disk and either put them in the HDD Backplane Enclosure or connect them back to their USB Adaptor.

I am a notorious Bower Bird who resurrects/adapts all manner of things.

[Brett_Tabke]

Installed it this week. I played with it for about 10hours. I could find nothing new that I would use daily.

I did find the new task bar setup to be a complete deal killer. You can't "uncombine" icons now. So if you have 5 browser windows open, it only shows one button and you have to click it and then decide what window you want.

> failed to explain its reasoning, imho.

It is about the App store. Everything about this build is setup to drive traffic to the App store and support developers.

> insider build

The current release on the Beta channel is very nearly finished. I bet there will be very few changes before release.

The only major change yet to be turned on, is the ability to run Android apps.

[mcneely]

You can't "uncombine" icons now.

LOL ... Microsoft thinks they're Linux now.

Since I've been running Mint for quite some time, I'm fairly used to it.
This is the sort of thing that happens when Microsoft takes a failed build (10X) designed to compete with Chrome OS and merges it with Windows 10.

[jetteroheller]

My last Windows was 8. They made me so angry with the update now to 10, that I changed to Linux Ubuntu 2016. No way back!

[IanCP]

Edit - Welcome to Webmaster World where in my long experience most people are constructively helpful.

Window 11 is a pro version of window 10

Then what would you call my existing Windows 10 Pro?

in window 10 we found less bugs as compare to window 8 now it's to fix that bug with window 11.

I must disagree - I found no bugs in Windows 8 Pro which affected me. However I have a number of known bugs in later editions of Windows 10 Pro which they will not fix, these same bugs have continued in Windows 11. - See my Message 5046648 above.

[Edit] - Clarity

[robzilla]

I'm running Windows 11 Pro. I like the new Start menu (except for all the pre-installed programs and shortcuts I had to remove first) and it feels quite a bit snappier than Windows 10. Not a big fan of the icon art, some are downright ugly (looking at you, Settings icon).