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Windows 11 will be a free upgrade for Windows 10 users and will feature new gaming enhancements

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During a livestream that aired today, Microsoft officially unveiled its next OS: Windows 11 and announced that Windows 10 users will get access to Windows 11 as a free upgrade, similar to how Windows 7 and 8 users were upgraded to Windows 10 for free.

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Microsoft also said that Windows 11 will be "the best Windows ever for gaming". To back that claim up, the tech giant announced a slate of gaming-related enhancements. One of these is Auto HDR which will make games look better as it adds High Dynamic Range (HDR) enhancements to titles built on DirectX 11 or higher that previously only leveraged Standard Dynamic Range (SDR). This tech was in fact introduced Xbox Series X|S consoles.

Another enhancement will come to loading speed through the new DirectStorage technology. This was part of the Xbox Velocity Architecture featured in the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S and Windows 11 PCs will load new games faster with a high performance NVMe SSD and the proper drivers.

As a final gaming-related feature, the Xbox app will be built into Windows 11 to provide easier access to Game Pass. Cloud gaming will also be directly added into the Xbox app on PC.

Another interesting announcement during the event, albeit not directly related to gaming, is that Android apps will apparently run natively on Windows 11. The apps will be downloadable from Amazon’s Appstore, which will itself be accessible via the new Windows store.

For more details about the gaming-related announcements, head to the official Xbox blog post in the source link below.

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My understanding is the rebranding is pretty much in name only. Windows 10 users will be forced to update to Windows 11 automatically after enough time as passed, like with any other major Windows 10 update.

The ability of Windows 11 to support running Android apps "natively" is pretty neat though. That was my biggest takeaway.
 
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Been using the leaked version my Razer Blade 14 since it leaked, seems pretty ok (even though the leak is basically just 10 kernel with 11 UI and not too many under the hood changes yet :lol:).

I do like the new UI design, icons are nice and the new start menu is better than 10's IMO, and the new system sounds are also more enjoyable than 10's. Will be interesting to see what the actual full version will be like, though I don't expect anything massively important changing.
 
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shaunj66 said:
My PC isn't compatible according to the Microsoft health check tool.

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Not sure why. Something to with TPM or secure boot apparently.
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I got the same error. You're probably right that it's related to TPM. The BitLocker requirements for TPM can already be disabled on Windows 10, so my guess is this will be bypassable one way or another.

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Now might be a time to switch to Linux....
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Why is it time to switch to Linux? What was bad about Windows 11, and what's wrong with staying on Windows 10?
 
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Lacius said:
I got the same error. You're probably right that it's related to TPM. The BitLocker requirements for TPM can already be disabled on Windows 10, so my guess is this will be bypassable one way or another.

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Why is it time to switch to Linux? What was bad about Windows 11, and what's wrong with staying on Windows 10?
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Chrome OS like design. Yuck. Windows 10 will be less stable as it'll be old
 
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ciaomao said:
Wasn't it communicated everywhere that windows 10 will only receive updates and that windows 11 will never appear? :huh:
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Yes, sort of, but Windows 10 has always had an end of support date, and everyone assumed there'd be a successor for after that date. I think the implication of what was said was that, starting with Windows 10, new operating system updates would be free and installed automatically. I think what they said/meant was "Windows 10 will be the last OS you buy."

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Chrome OS like design. Yuck. Windows 10 will be less stable as it'll be old
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Windows 10 won't be less stable. It won't even be significantly less secure until after end of life (2025).
 
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You are the product.
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Customers could have fought this, but its too late now and everyone is moving towards this model.

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I dont even remember what chromeos looked like, it was awful and the hardware that runs it is usually atrocious.
 

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