{"id":33178,"date":"2021-07-21T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33178"},"modified":"2021-07-21T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:00:49","slug":"windows-11-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/21\/windows-11-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panos Panay<\/a> (Hacker<\/a> News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

We’ve simplified the design and user experience to empower your productivity and inspire your creativity. It’s modern, fresh, clean and beautiful. From the new Start button and taskbar to each sound, font and icon, everything was done intentionally to put you in control and bring a sense of calm and ease. We put Start at the center and made it easier to quickly find what you need. Start utilizes the power of the cloud and Microsoft 365 to show you your recent files no matter what platform or device you were viewing them on earlier, even if it was on an Android or iOS device.<\/p>\n

Windows has always been about helping you work how you want, by offering flexibility of multiple windows and the ability to snap apps side by side. New in Windows 11, we’re introducing Snap Layouts, Snap Groups and Desktops to provide an even more powerful way to multitask and stay on top of what you need to get done. These are new features designed to help you organize your windows and optimize your screen real estate so you can see what you need just the way you want in a layout that’s visually clean. You can also create separate Desktops for each part of your life and customize them to your liking – imagine having a Desktop for work, gaming or school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Microsoft is doing something very interesting with app icons — they’re using different shapes for each of them, rather than forcing them all into the exact same roundsquare shape. That’s an idea Apple should copy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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On the surface, it is more of an iterative update than any new version of Windows for a long time; it seems like, with Windows 10, Microsoft established a good foundation that does not require radical changes. At the time, Microsoft even went so far as to claim that Windows 10 would be the “last version of Windows<\/a>”. Things change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Ben Thompson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Of course Windows remains essential software, with a billion-plus userbase of its own, and a critical part of the enterprise landscape in particular (although, as the company highlighted in the presentation, COVID re-established the importance of the PC for consumers as well). What gives Microsoft more freedom-of-movement, though, is that Windows is no longer the core of its business. This remains CEO Satya Nadella’s biggest triumph; I recounted how he shifted the company away from its Windows-centricity in 2018’s The End of Windows<\/a>[…]<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Microsoft, like Apple, is responding by doing what they do best, but, because it’s Microsoft, it’s the exact opposite of Apple: instead of more deeply integrating and doing everything themselves in an attempt to appeal to consumers, they are opening up and removing limitations in an attempt to appeal to developers, and by extension consumers who don’t want to be bound into Apple’s ecosystem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Nilay Patel<\/a> (via John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Officially, Windows 11 is incompatible with processors in computers released starting just a few years ago, but even more recent models are going to be stuck on Windows 10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Jack Wellborn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As successful as Apple has been, they aren’t an immediate threat to Microsoft. Fundamentally, one is primarily a consumer technology company and the other is a business technology company. While each has tried<\/a> to drink<\/a> the other’s milkshake, neither has meaningfully<\/a> succeeded<\/a>. The biggest and most immediate threat to Windows is not anything made by Apple. It’s Chromebooks.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

These aren’t features to lure Mac or iPad users to Windows. They are to keep Windows customers, consumers and businesses alike, from switching to Google.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n