On October 5, Microsoft officially made the Windows 11 upgrade available for download. Even though there was quite some controversy caused by the strict hardware requirements and therefore limited compatibility of Windows 11, things seem to have calmed a bit over the last couple of weeks. Therefore, Microsoft has now announced that it has officially begun the next phase of the gradual deployment of the Windows 11 upgrade.
As of the official release in early October, Windows 11 was mainly available for two client groups. The first group included people who bought a new PC on which Windows 11 was pre-installed. The second group contained users who bought a PC with Windows 10 (from US$129 on Amazon), which are also qualified for the free Windows 11 upgrade. After the upgrade apparently went smoothly for most of these users, Microsoft has now made Windows 11 available for download for the third group of customers.
With its machine learning technology, Microsoft has determined further devices on which the Windows 11 update prompt should now appear automatically. The Redmond-based software company has not revealed any additional information on which exact PC configurations are included in this third group. However, manually triggering the Windows 11 update, which is how many tech enthusiasts probably installed Windows 11 in the past weeks, is no longer necessary on these PCs. Users can simply check the regular Windows Update application in order to verify whether the Windows 11 upgrade is ready to download on their respective devices.
The Start Menu has been upgraded to list all of your applications in a more deliberate and coordinated way, and you can obviously stick applications that you use as often as possible. You can likewise see all your introduced applications here. There's a Recommended segment, wherein you can find as of late got to documents and envelopes. The Start Menu has been intended to be predictable with the off-white glass subject that you'll see all through Windows 11, and it looks great. Goodness, and say goodbye to Live Tiles. These were the energized squares you could see at whatever point you opened the Start menu in Windows 10. They were run to show you live updates for apps like Weather, Calendar, etc., but this utility was moved elsewhere – error on that later.
You will likewise see Microsoft Teams incorporated into the taskbar. I'm not altogether sure how sticking Teams here is useful to everybody, except it is something Microsoft needs you to attempt. During the pandemic, many individuals have gone to video-approaching stages like Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, and that could be the explanation that Windows presently has Teams set up front. In the event that you don't really want to utilize Microsoft Teams, you can impair this from the taskbar settings.
Windows 11 brings some new subjects and backdrops that are appealing. The Personalisation settings board isn't vastly different contrasted with Windows 10 – each setting choice is conveniently coordinated here, and you can change the backdrop and change the topic tones, lock screen, taskbar, text style, and foundation as you would prefer.
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