I did tried Windows 11 but maybe I don't like it

dorcom said:

Windows 12? Wait for Windows 18.

With inflation that way that it is now, that should be next week.

f23948 said:

I am using volume licensing How to find Windows Product Key using VB Script in Windows 11/10
it says BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB

Or you are using an illegitimate KMS activation scheme that will produce the same result....

People! People!
Wake up!

Windows 11 is to get you, lulled, hooked and coerced accepting the upcoming rent-per-use version of Windows.
That's why it is a "free" update. To further test but also to condition you into a pay-per-use online OS. What do you think "Windows as a service" marketing hype in fact is?

Windows 11 is just a classic and typical Microsoft "Fanfare, bells and whistles hoopla hoo marketing scream" to convince you you have to upgrade and you cannot live without it.
What does it improve in your life?
Nothing. Trust me you will still be able to breathe.
On top of it as usual, you get a truckload of new bugs to pull your hair out, that is, if you got any left since the W98 trash to begin with. You're okay with that? Think car or better yet, think airplane... You are the guinea pig for a half-baked product.

Windows 10 was the trial ground with its extreme back end connectivity to Microsoft. (Not the Chinese gov version though, ever wonder why?)
Remember? All the yada yada back in 2015 that it was supposed to be the "final version" of Windows?
From thereon Windows will be just a "service"? (Microsoft marketing speak for future "you want to use it, you got to pay every time")
The Microsoft "Putinisation" of Windows. Do as we say, or else...

Once they got your brain massaged to pay-per-use you will find that there is no backdoor except reinstalling Windows 10.
Of course they will surgically dismantle this to an near useless "end-of-life" product.
They might leave you with a working version which is just substantially crippled in overall functionality.
Check out the internal version scheme of Windows OS.

Find an objective critical review of the necessity of Windows 11.
You will not. Everything is a rah, rah, rah click bait articles.

Like the whole industry and their unasked, unwanted but "shoved down your throat "upgrade and update addiction, especially the pushed ones, are worse than all scams combined.
Why?
It's a business ploy, the more new products, the more changes the more variations the more updates are needed.
I have clients, they call me with concern that the system says is incompatible with Windows 11. Yet, they are happy with Windows 10 on their I5 and I7 machines and it perfectly serves their needs.
I myself run and I7 system with 32 GB and it is absolutely fast and swift, more then enough for all I do with it.
And if that I have to wait 5 seconds for Photoshop to start instead of 3 seconds, so be it.
I'm not going to buy a new system just because Microsoft says so pushing its Windows 11 crap.

If you ever went on a trip you begin to realize how much you being already held "hostage" with change & upgrades just with USB connectors: USB/B, Mini, micro, C and so on. Thank God at least one brilliance made it through that you don't have to take with you four or 5 different power supplies... But I do need to take a bunch of different cables and adapters with me.

Chastise and ridicule me all you want! I know people don't like to hear the truth, especially when it hurts.
However, I welcome any open-minded objective intellectual discussion and debate.

Pay-per-use, don't cry, this will come. The industry has been talking long enough about it as PC sales decline and software hits a certain saturation point (how much more can you "improve" i.e. Photoshop every year?) and there are already enough apps that you have to "rent" on a per online-use basis.
One day you will wake up and realize, wow! I'm spending hundreds of, if not more, dollars every month renting software to use and work.
No pay, no go.
Micro$oft says so!
You think, "someone will find a hack".
Nope, not with online, neither with a "semi"-online connectivity that constantly checks and verifies (i.e. precursor Windows 10) the validity of registrations etc. et al.

I like Windows 11. I will use Windows 11. If Microsoft starts charging by-the-minute usage fees, then I'll move on to something else.

WXC said:

@dorcom,

Interesting, well written, thought provoking prospective.

Thank you.

Thank you too!

Since I still use W7 today, I will probably use W10 for the next 10 years.

I bought all my licenses as Retail and they are better to continue working... And at the moment there is a couple tricks to get a W10 working like 7 was...

The main thing I observed in W10 is, it never stops HDD solicitation, never... That's crazy, on W7 when I leave my computer RM shows 0 process and 0 disk activity until I click on something...

For the first time I was able to create a really stripped W10, Without breaking anything.... I reused it as a reference image on my new systems and it's doing great. it runs around 140 processes. With a very lightweight set of tasks and a crippled logging facility. All updates are working Firewall, Antivirus etc... no crap gets re enabled, I rolled two Windows versions over it and all subsequent updates from WU and it stayed clean. OMG !!!

This way I reduced overall systems activity by 35%-40% and internet network activity by up to 25%... That shocked me big time. The whole network response when up and I love it.

So yes, I believe that Tweaking Windows to suite your needs is a good thing and removing crap from it "is a Must".

f14tomcat said:

Sorry, but your quoted reply to me makes no sense to me. Did you miss-post this in the wrong thread, or Forum?

To me, personally, the last 3 whole pages of this thread make no sense. Hence my attempt at making a silly joke about a company name that was entered into a database as a fake example for Microsoft a long time ago.