Windows 11

[jct21]

i hope microsoft follows through with windows 11. id like to see them go back to how they used to do it.

Windows 11 release date, news, and features | TechRadar

 

[TheKrell]

i hope microsoft follows through with windows 11. id like to see them go back to how they used to do it.

You lost me. How did they "used to do it" that was so great?

 

[HipKat]

i hope microsoft follows through with windows 11. id like to see them go back to how they used to do it.

Windows 11 release date, news, and features | TechRadar

I saw that story - or one similar to it. I'd like to see a bigger UI redesign, myself

 

[Yespage]

UI? I’d prefer something with security that doesn’t allow a single PDF or Office file to destroy a network.

 

[TRG]

I won't be "upgrading" until W10 is no longer supported. I'm mainly on my Linux partition for the last decade or so. That said W10 is the best version of Windows to date and I go back to the DOS/Windows 3.1 days.

 

[Yespage]

7 and 2000 were better.

 

[Juan]

7 and 2000 were better.

Wasn't 7 aborted?

 

[Route66Fan]

Microsoft will continue to support Windows 10 until 2025.

 

[TheKrell]

Wasn't 7 aborted?

You are probably thinking of Vista.

 

[Foxbat]

You are probably thinking of Vista.

I try not to...

 

[harshness]

How about a Windows version that includes all of the useful stuff promised with the release of previous Windows versions? I'm guessing at least one person (Bill Gates) would still love to see WinFS, the database-driven filesystem for Windows that was supposed to be part of Windows Vista.

I think the big driver for many people is a Windows version that doesn't have so many ways to do the same thing and with the latest way being the least flexible and most inscrutable (i.e. printer setup and preferences). Perhaps at least one version (call it "ad free") that didn't try to force Microsoft apps on its users.

A thoughtful replacement for DOSSHELL.EXE (renamed EXPLORER.EXE) would be nice too.

I'd like to see Microsoft come out with a standard database application that was part of the OS so that people didn't need to use spreadsheets to make lists and catalogs.

 

[Howard Simmons]

Another thing to screw up my computer. I'm just getting used to Windows 10.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Didn't they once say that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows released? What happened to that?

 

[Juan]

Didn't they once say that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows released? What happened to that?

Gates retired

 

[KE4EST]

Didn't they once say that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows released? What happened to that?

Yep, I remember it well. But, that was an evangelist that said that at a conference, to make it sound great! At least that is their story.

 

[harshness]

Gates retired

The "last version of Windows" was proclaimed by a guy named Jerry Nixon at the 2015 Ignite conference. At that point, Satya Nadella was the big cheese.

Bill Gates stepped down as CEO in 2006.

 

[Juan]

The "last version of Windows" was proclaimed by a guy named Jerry Nixon at the 2015 Ignite conference. At that point, Satya Nadella was the big cheese.

Bill Gates stepped down as CEO in 2006.

He was still on the board

 

[harshness]

He was still on the board

The Chairman of the Board doesn't make directional decisions unless that person is also the CEO (and typically not even then). The Chairman of the Board exists to make sure that management acts in the best interests of the shareholders. Product naming usually happens at the hands of the Marketroids.

 

[Juan]

The Chairman of the Board doesn't make directional decisions unless that person is also the CEO (and typically not even then). The Chairman of the Board exists to make sure that management acts in the best interests of the shareholders. Product naming usually happens at the hands of the Marketroids.

He was the founder...just coincedence he left the board just before windows 11
Microsoft board: Bill Gates left Microsoft board amid probe into relationship: Report - The Economic Times

Bill Gates left Microsoft board amid probe into relationship: Report

The founder and former head of the US technology giant stepped down as board chair in March 2020.

m.economictimes.com

 

[harshness]

He was the founder...just coincedence he left the board just before windows 11

So the timing of his divorce might suggest that his marriage ended because of Windows 11?