Microsoft Windows 11? / 24th June Event

I love windows 10. But please Microsoft may you give me widgets for my desktop :pray: .

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It does have something called widgets but I couldn’t play with them as I didn’t want to turn on internet access which it needs apparently.

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Day 1: uninstall Microsoft teams chat

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All looks pretty decent, although they really know how to drag it a stream out.

Yeah pretty happy with that.

Love the overall design changes.

Such a small thing but being able to actually snap apps into three vertical columns is gonna be fucking great.

Better built in Xbox app also very cool, especially with Xcloud now.

Excited to see what happens with widgets…but would be nice to have quick access to some helpful info in the same way iOS started off on the side of your Home Screen.

Android apps also cool! Can’t say it’s something I’d use even every week but I currently have a hacky method for the odd time I do want to.

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Sadly it’s only Android apps that are available on the Amazon App Store :frowning: So looks like Bluestacks (and similar emulators) will continue to have a purpose for the time being…

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Hopefully consumer feedback to Devs will make them rework the app for the Amazon app store, although easier said than done.

Smaller updates , less feature updates and hot patching (no need to reboot to install updates) should be a nice UX upgrade.

Although I have two minds on hot patching as with fast startup and now no reboot required for updates users will truly never reboot :man_facepalming:

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Windows 11 will need a TPM chip which means older hardware which would otherwise support the software won’t and/or hardware with the chip may find it disabled by default

I’m really glad to have widgets.

My final wish would be a way to search that didn’t force the use of bing, edge or cortana (because fuck those things). But I think that’s dreaming, how else would they get people to use them.

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Edit:
Will require a TPM minimum of 1.2 , not 2.0 for final.

Virtually all CPUs support virtual TPM for a long time now so you’re probably covered.

I have it on good authority that it won’t be required for the final build, just previews.

Lots of gaming PCs don’t have TPMs too.

I miss this:

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What’s this modern nonsense?

Bring back pre-packaged Encarta 95!

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Clippy! The most helpful digi-character ever.

Until it wasn’t.

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Poor @monzobot :cry:

Hi! To find out what I can do, say @monzobot display help.

:warning: Extreme caution :warning:

The last time monzobot appeared, the forum did a Chernobyl

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Showing my age I miss this

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You young kids, I started on this plus dos but I was v v young at the time:

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Hmm. I just enabled TPM and my wifi card doesn’t work after a reboot.