Windows 11 Incoming

Windows 11 Must Be Absolutely Perfect. If It’s Not, It’s a Failure.

There is a very good reason why that is and Microsoft should finally take note

Kostas Farkonas
Geek Culture
Published in
4 min readJun 30, 2021

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Windows 11 may be “coming in time for the holidays” this year, but it seems that this will only apply for new computer purchases. (Image: Microsoft)

Windows 11 was officially unveiled a few days ago and tidbits of new information about Microsoft’s new operating system continue to appear here and there in various outlets — some of them so important, actually, that they should have been included in the company’s presentation. Here are two of those. One, Microsoft’s various executives themselves, as well as partners such as Walmart, strongly hint at an October release of Windows 11 (or is it “release”? — we’ll get back on that). Two, the upgrade of Windows 10 to Windows 11 will not be offered in 2021: Microsoft plans to start making it available “in 2022” and “through the first half of that year” for “devices already in use”.

These two bits of info do feel like they contradict each other, though. The “release” of Windows 11 is seemingly planned for October (at some point) while the upgrade from Windows 10 is planned for… next year (at some point)? An October “release” of Windows 11 with no availability of the new OS through Windows Update would imply that, short-term, Microsoft is focusing exclusively on the promotion of the expected array of new PCs that its hardware…

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Kostas Farkonas
Geek Culture

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