Windows 11 available on October 5

For me, being an insider is a hobby! Been there for 7 years on my main machine and only ever had to apply an earlier image once.

Been running win 11 since it came out but my Optiplex 9020 is too old so did some soul searching and decided I would get a compatible comp and carry on with win 11. Found an ex-lease Optiplex 3060 that has TPM2.0 and an I5 8500 CPU at a good price and await its delivery when I will dump an image onto it and carry on the Insider journey.

It is up to everyone to make their own decisions, and the doomsayers are welcome to stay on win 10, but I am staying on win 11!

I can't see 11 being for me. One machine meets the minimums and another has a perfectly good i7 CPU which does not.

Cannot say I'm impressed as any machine suitably secured will be err... be secure and the 'new' UI is a beauty in the eyes of......

What is annoying is the push towards using Edge, Bing and the Store or is it just me. So there's no need to charge for the OS as there will be more online Store purchases. Or that's no doubt what MS are hoping for.

Hi,
I'm just happy ms is using a new wallpaper lol
11 os wise

" ms is using a new wallpaper "........first thing I will do , after installing 11 ; immediately replace this discusting "wallpaper " .........

I paid like $14-$15.00 to upgrade to Windows 8th on release day, if Windows 11 was paid upgrade, i'd pay the $10.00, $15.00, $20.00 or whatever it was, even if just 1 machine compatible

Always been a day 1 upgrader for all Windows releases

linw said:

... and the doomsayers are welcome to stay on win 10, but I am staying on win 11!

Why do you feel it necessary to "badmouth" those of us who simply do not have the MONEY to go out and buy a Win11-specific PC?

I provide free "in house IT" to my family and relatives and support around a dozen PCs and laptops, combined. Of these, only ONE passes the current Win11 requirements tests. NONE of the others do.

With the laptops, that means new ones -- which I can not afford and the relatives don't want to spend the money.

With the desktops, it's a new motherboard, processor, and memory -- hundreds of dollars for which it seems they get little more than rounded window corners, a centered new Start menu, and different wallpaper.

I and the others, have looked at Win11 and decided it is not worth the upgrade costs.

That does not make us "doomsayers" -- it makes us practical.