any business still on 7 or 8.1 is a complete failure business that is asking for ransomware/malware and the like just like any business or gov still on xp complete incompetence
No, I mean those businesses running Windows 10 on 7th gen (or lower) CPUs that don't meet the hardware requirements for Windows 11. I don't think that these businesses are going to be bullied into replacing there PCs with new 8th gen (or above) CPU computers just to run Windows 11. That might be an enormous investment.
Windows would have to offer one hell of a carrot to make that jump worth it in the business world. The only performance changes I have seen mentioned have to do with support for big/little CPUs and direct storage. Seems to me gamers might be interested in those changes but for business, I don't see why anyone would care.
Could you imagine Microsoft trying to get ordinary people to tinker around in the BIOS to turn on secure boot and TPM. This is a disaster in the making.
Agreed. Sometimes there's dormant code in a BIOS, and that code is turned off because the motherboard doesn't have the sub-assembly that the dormant code is designed to address. So you might have a generic BIOS for several different revs of a motherboard. Unless one knows that the hardware sub-assembly is actually present on the motherboard, then it could be a disaster turning on the dormant code to address the sub-assembly that is not there. So this could get dicey.
Here's an example of the Windows 11 interface with an Open-Shell workaround for the Start Menu. Instead of having the menu in the middle of the taskbar, you can dock it on the left, change the menu, and give it a new start button.
MS is telling home users, "You have 4 years to upgrade your hardware. After that F You" Corporate customers that won't refresh their hardware will be offered exorbitantly expensive extended support contracts on Windows 10.
Did you mean the "Taskbar" or "Start Menu"? The Windows 11 settings do not distinguish between these two very well. I have yet to be able to "unlock" the Taskbar so as to make it "vertical" and move it to the left of the screen. But you can move the "Start Menu" to the left per Sam-Rs instructions. The settings say "Taskbar" but I think they are actually the "Start Menu".
I have done this but the Start button and other icons disappear. You can do it in the registry. It proves to be useless though for the fore-mentioned reason.
I installed win11 on vhd and it went great ,fast but for workstation its bad ff crash all the time apps works weirdly and so on im sticking with server 2016
Installed to spare metal box Core i7 2600K 16gb memory 120gb Kingston ssd Working fine so far, Firefox default browser.