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Anyone has a good guess why Microsoft needed to bump the version? All of these updates seems something that can be easily updated to Windows 10 in several or on
by JamesAdir 5y ago
Anyone has a good guess why Microsoft needed to bump the version? All of these updates seems something that can be easily updated to Windows 10 in several or one half year update.
Is this something related to it's corporate clients or licensing services? Really can't understand why a need to create a new version with so much hype, when they've announced in the past that W10 will be the last Windows version.
- TonyTrapp 5y agoMaybe they had to now that macOS finally arrived at version 11 as well ;)
- somebody_amzn 5y agoThey wanted to drop support for quite some old hardware, like 32-bit only machines, which are no longer supported in Windows 11. (and some newer ones too, rumours say that a TPM might be mandatory to have, finally) Dumping support for HW and major UX changes without bumping the version number is a bad idea.
- EvanAnderson 5y agoI'm betting that getting out of support / lifecycle requirements is part of the major version bump. Internet Explorer 11 support is likely tied to the lifecycle of Windows 10.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoSadly, I'll still be supporting IE11 on Windows 10 for the next decade. The bane of a massive company with old people that panic at opening chrome.
- charrondev 5y agoShould edge be replacing that?
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoI will be supporting it for as long as IE11 is installed on all computers. For reference, we extended Windows 7 support until just this year lol
- voidfunc 5y agoMarketing noise and kicks off a sales frenzy for enterprise customers :)
- lp0_on_fire 5y ago> Really can't understand why a need to create a new version with so much hype, when they've announced in the past that W10 will be the last Windows version. Money is the answer. It hurts sales prospects when you say it's the last version ever.
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- kyriakos 5y agoFor windows store I think its like hitting the reset button.
- beardyw 5y agoI am certain that they said 10 was to be the final version of Windows. On the strength of that I decided I didn't want 10 so my only option was to jump ship (to Linux). I wonder how many others did? Saying that I doubt I would want 11 either, but that's academic now.