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  • Windows 11 Plan to install Poll

    From Andy@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 5 15:14:52 2021
    https://www.androidauthority.com/windows-11-upgrade-poll-1638761/

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  • From Pedro Valdez@21:1/5 to Andy on Tue Jul 6 04:21:15 2021
    On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 10:14:53 PM UTC+8, Andy wrote:
    https://www.androidauthority.com/windows-11-upgrade-poll-1638761/

    surprised that 63% will jump to 11
    maybe we will see 3 year-old PCs flooding Gumtree as people upgrade?

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  • From Andy@21:1/5 to Jaimie Vandenbergh on Tue Jul 6 15:03:26 2021
    On 06/07/2021 14:39, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
    On 6 Jul 2021 at 12:21:15 BST, "Pedro Valdez" <pedro1492@lycos.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 10:14:53 PM UTC+8, Andy wrote:
    https://www.androidauthority.com/windows-11-upgrade-poll-1638761/

    surprised that 63% will jump to 11

    Unless MS walk back a lot of the minimum requirements, there's no chance
    63% have machines that'll take it.

    Cheers - Jaimie

    That's the problem with internet Poll's, no one knows who has taken part
    in them. The 63% could all be MS employees.

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 6 13:39:44 2021
    On 6 Jul 2021 at 12:21:15 BST, "Pedro Valdez" <pedro1492@lycos.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 10:14:53 PM UTC+8, Andy wrote:
    https://www.androidauthority.com/windows-11-upgrade-poll-1638761/

    surprised that 63% will jump to 11

    Unless MS walk back a lot of the minimum requirements, there's no chance
    63% have machines that'll take it.

    Cheers - Jaimie
    --
    Some people have years of experience.
    Some have one year's experience several times.

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Jaimie Vandenbergh on Tue Jul 6 15:27:42 2021
    Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
    On 6 Jul 2021 at 12:21:15 BST, "Pedro Valdez" <pedro1492@lycos.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 10:14:53 PM UTC+8, Andy wrote:
    https://www.androidauthority.com/windows-11-upgrade-poll-1638761/

    surprised that 63% will jump to 11

    Unless MS walk back a lot of the minimum requirements, there's no chance
    63% have machines that'll take it.

    People are installing it on Raspberry Pis and Lumia phones, so there are
    likely to be plenty of machines that will take it. It's just a question of what hoops they have to jump through and what level of support they might
    get at the end of it.

    I could well imagine a 'patcher' style utility that makes it work on PCs
    that are not officially supported, maybe with a few features disabled. Businesses will buy new machines to be on the official track for the support/security maintenance, but MS may find that a lot of home machines
    are running it 'unofficially'. They may or may not care about that, it's
    hard to say.

    Theo

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  • From Pancho@21:1/5 to Theo on Tue Jul 6 16:25:39 2021
    On 06/07/2021 15:27, Theo wrote:

    Businesses will buy new machines to be on the official track for the support/security maintenance, but MS may find that a lot of home machines
    are running it 'unofficially'.

    Will they? The corporations I worked for never seemed that fussed about upgrading previous hardware or versions of windows. That was back when
    there were really significant upgrades to be had. A machine that was a
    few years old was historic. Also they still gave us a 32 bit OS long
    after cheap RAM made a 64 bit OS a huge advantage.

    Why would they upgrade now? When a good 10 year old PC is still
    reasonably competitive with new machines. When Win10 offers few
    significant advantages over Win7? I can't see Win 11 being a show
    stopper. The technology is pretty mature.

    So spend cash on PC upgrades or dividends to share holders...

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  • From Pancho@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Tue Jul 6 16:39:54 2021
    On 06/07/2021 16:30, Andy Burns wrote:
    Pancho wrote:

    The corporations I worked for never seemed that fussed about upgrading
    previous hardware or versions of windows.
    Why would they upgrade now? When a good 10 year old PC is still
    reasonably competitive with new machines.

    Because windows7 ESU costs more and more each year, and doesn't run past 2023.

    I meant why buy new hardware to upgrade to Win 11 (from 10 or whatever).

    I only mentioned 7 to illustrate the limited advance in the technology.
    Win 10 support goes until 2025.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Pancho on Tue Jul 6 16:30:16 2021
    Pancho wrote:

    The corporations I worked for never seemed that fussed about upgrading previous hardware or versions of windows.

    Why would they upgrade now? When a good 10 year old PC is still
    reasonably competitive with new machines.

    Because windows7 ESU costs more and more each year, and doesn't run past
    2023.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Pancho on Tue Jul 6 16:48:05 2021
    Pancho wrote:

    Win 10 support goes until 2025

    Or 2029 for enterprises on LTSC.

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