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Windows 11 has arrived

Thankfully I have a 17 inch beast thing, but to be fair do most of my heavy lifting on my home PC. Work gave me a pro 7 as well so I hope 11 can go on that for the enhanced touch support. I do like the surface form factor.
 
We have something like 50 k users all over the world remote working and nobody reports any issues that don't come down to their local connectivity. Fibre works just fine.
 
it is decades away from being commercialised for services. It is barely out of the lab...

Well the good news is that quantum uncertainty can include delta-T. Hence it might be possible for the people who get this sorted in the future to communicate how to do it back to us. 8-]
 
And mine. I work for a reseller and VDI & BYOD were Buzzwords of the Month a few years back but not many actually really did it properly (ie. Horizon or similar), certainly in the SMB/SME space where we typically operate. It takes a surprising amount of money to deliver an end-user experience that looks identical... Funnily enough I have a call with a customer early next week about exactly this; we'll be touching on Horizon, Azure VD and W365 options amongst others. Like with O365 (now M365), MS's MO is to try and get everything rolling over to subscription to keep that sweet money rolling in regularly. Case in point - as of the end of the year Open licensing will be porting to CSP, you won't be able to buy new Open agreements.

Obviously Covid and WFH focused a lot of peoples' attention on the need to give secure remote access - some temporary solutions were put in place to bridge the gap but it has brought to the fore how a lot of companies just weren't ready or geared properly for such an eventuality.

I deal mostly with datacentre server, storage, networking and security rather than end-user devices but I do obviously supply them for customers. The rush for kit last year made it harder to source and the current silicon shortages are playing havoc with some of the supply chains too. Boring it certainly isn't!
 
Much better than apple in fact: https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-just-became-the-first-big-company-to-commit-t-1847820524

(Having worked for Microsoft both as a contractor and a FTE I saw first hand their pivot to subscription services - Xbox Game Pass, M365, Azure - these are their cash cows)

(Shares saw a large boost when MSFT raised the price of M365 subs - shareholders happy/customers unhappy)

(Quantum computing is slowly but surely getting there - an easy way to describe QC is thus: Normal computers rely on binary - 1s and 0s. There are no such limitations for QCs for they operate in the space between the 1s and 0s (superposition) and hence the revolutionary increase in computational power)


Microsoft's record is still far better than Apple's here. I find the planned obsolescence side especially disappointing with Apple, as they are in control of all, including the 3rd party Apple compatible app market to a certain degree.

With the release of macOS 12 Monterey, there will have been 19 OS X/macOS operating systems in 21 years (not including OS X Public Beta* or 'Server' versions of some), with support only ever going two prior OS versions back, which these days means one is lucky to get 3 supported years out of a given macOS version; all the more disappointing when a given version becomes the last that supports one's hardware.

* OS X Public Beta ran from Sept 13, 2000 to May 15, 2001 whereupon it ceased to function. The funny part is that Jobs managed to persuade Mac users to part with 30 bucks to become beta testers of an OS that lasted 7 months before bricking itself. 'What do you want for $29.95?'
 
They can commit to it all they like, you simply cannot get into any of their surface range without busting them.
 
Had to enable TPM 2.0 on my motherboard to be compatible with Windows 11.

Should I risk upgrading is the question?
 
Well from my perspective its been a positive experience, nothing has broken, all apps work etc
Your mileage my vary :)

That being said, apart from it looking nice I have not ran into any of the major advantages yet.
 
They can commit to it all they like, you simply cannot get into any of their surface range without busting them.

I think they might have improved, though a search of iFixit suggests they were still producing toxic unserviceable plastic landfill shit two years ago. I’m sure I saw somewhere that they have taken on board customer and industry feedback, which is clearly the case if the claim to support RtR is true. They certainly had a long way to go as the Surface really was as bad as computers get; at least as much glue as Apple, but made out of cheap plastic crap that melted with a heat gun!
 
I do find this a bit irritating as my desktop cannot run 11 due to my processor being on the banned list (2014 i7). The machine is very fast even today because I alway spec high end systems and keep a long time. I even started looking for another machine but common sense kicked in and I stopped, I really don't need a faster machine just a different one. Spending £1k+ on just being able to run Win11 is a non starter really. Not quite sure what I will do, wait for a hack probably or hope that MS come to their senses.
 
my surface 4 stopped working. Just replaced with something else i7, 16Gb nice screen
 
Not defending apple here but your reasoning is not quite right. All of these versions have basically been iterations of OSX 10, they are not fundamental changes and upgrading is usually pretty painless. And they will go on macs way more than 2 years old. They want you on the latest version and its 'free.'
No, he’s more or less correct. There have been major breaking changes in MacOS X over the years. It’s just that Apple’s users and developers are far more supine than those on Windows (I’ve been both, I work with and know both), and so will happily invest considerable resources in replacing, or porting, existing software that was already working just fine until Apple ditched or dramatically changed the libraries it required. Microsoft has gone to a lot of effort to keep old applications running on their new OS, or at least make them easy to recompile against those versions. Even on Linux, there are people maintaining ‘obsolete’ hardware platforms.

I used to develop software for MacOS X (prior to that, I worked in Apple, producing support tooling for the OS X release), and About 5-6 years ago, I was put in touch with a guy once who had built a medical imaging device using a Mac as a controller sometime in the early 2000s. He had chosen MacOS X for “future-proofing”, but had used a couple of technologies that Apple later dumped. Come 2015, he had a large control application that could not run on any new Mac OS X release, and no way to fix that except by re-writing. I looked through the codebase, and just about everything was either deprecated or about to be. I could offer him no other advice except to hire someone to reimplement the system on Linux or Windows, as both of those systems are actually supported. (Windows mainly because it has much better tooling and cheaper developers; I am again speaking from experience).
 
My fairly recent AMD Ryzen 7 (2019) does not have the right TPM, so no

Have you checked for a manufacturer BIOS update? I found one yesterday for my 2017 Dell that brought TPM up to 2.0. Now I just need to figure out how to preserve the now published registry mod which allows pre 8th Gen Intel to get W11, when I take this PC off the Insider Program. I may have to step back to 10 and forward to 11.

I put W11 Ent. on my SP6 yesterday with no problem.
 
So my Dell E6440 i5 is not compatable with 11. Shame as the HDD died earlier this year and I replaced it with a SSD. It really flies now, 5 sec boot up for an old laptop and it runs apps super fast. I've also literally just discovered it has keyboard illumination!
 
I've also literally just discovered it has keyboard illumination!

did you clean it?

A former partner of mine was called out to a warehouse where the company she worked for had installed some equipment. The support call was that they couldn't see anything on the screens. She took one look and asked for a damp cloth......a quick wipe and 5 years of thick dust was gone....
 
did you clean it?

A former partner of mine was called out to a warehouse where the company she worked for had installed some equipment. The support call was that they couldn't see anything on the screens. She took one look and asked for a damp cloth......a quick wipe and 5 years of thick dust was gone....
Nope, enabled it in BIOS. Annoyed it times out and there is no option to keep it on all the time.
 


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