Tuesday, June 15th 2021
Windows 11 ISO Leaks to the Web, New Start Screen, Mac-like Centered Dock, Rounded Edges
Alleged screenshots of Microsoft's upcoming operating system, the Windows 11, were leaked to the web ahead of its June 24 unveiling. The screenshots reveal a user interface that has several tie-ins with the current Windows 10, although enough is there to set it apart. For starters, the Start "menu" (if you can call it that), looks less like a menu, and more like a pop-out window with icons and actions, much like the macOS Finder. Icons pinned to the taskbar or open, are centered. The clock and system tray is still where it should be.
Windows Explorer features a familiar ribbon-type user interface, although there are changes to the icons. It's laid out exactly like in Windows 10. A thing to notice here is the window theme itself, which is single-tone, and with rounded edges. The "News and Interests" menu that surfaced in the recent Windows 10 update is more full-featured. User interface is only a fraction of what makes up a Windows major version, and Windows 11 is said to feature major under-the-hood changes, such as a new scheduler that's better suited for the upcoming hybrid x86 core processors from Intel and AMD.
Source:
The Verge
Windows Explorer features a familiar ribbon-type user interface, although there are changes to the icons. It's laid out exactly like in Windows 10. A thing to notice here is the window theme itself, which is single-tone, and with rounded edges. The "News and Interests" menu that surfaced in the recent Windows 10 update is more full-featured. User interface is only a fraction of what makes up a Windows major version, and Windows 11 is said to feature major under-the-hood changes, such as a new scheduler that's better suited for the upcoming hybrid x86 core processors from Intel and AMD.
243 Comments on Windows 11 ISO Leaks to the Web, New Start Screen, Mac-like Centered Dock, Rounded Edges
1. Cannot drop and drag icons into the taskbar you have to now right click on the icon and pin it only.
2. Got control panel up in power settings under adavanced Processor control completely gone. - Was able to restore some in regedit
3. Under system and about you have to configure power settings for each app installed.
4. Windows simple notepad is replaced with a windows store version. Also the old version is there but MS wont allow you to use it for text files unless you install there new version from store. Ouch
5. In powershell on provisioned apps you now cannot uninstalled the Desktop app installer which is tied to the store. So in terms they are controling whats installed and not you.
6. Control panel Administrator Tools now renamed to Windows Tools
7. Right click on taskbar Task Manager is now removed. Only access is in Windows tools now.
8. The whole OS is using MS edge webview for its shell and pretty interface. Even if you have chrome as default browsers it all still runs. I don't care what MS says Edge is chromium and google owns the source code. Also with the desktop interface now tied to Edge the virus's are going to rule this OS. - Update on this if you turn off the UAC in the regedit and reboot it stops the webview as its tied to the Store.
9. One Drive is installed by default with no asking if you want it.
Just some of the issues I see already.
In my opinion MS is going back to the old bad business practices that got them in trouble in the first place. Not listening to the consumer forcing products unto your computer and taking away your control more and more. Most of all my systems now run Linux and I am very happy using them because I have the control not a company.
Also now with Edge being intergrated into the OS open up a whole new can of worms with virus's and security reasons. That was MS's biggest mistake was intergrating IE into there OS's.
I am surprised by the details some of you note, not you per say I think those shocking omissions personally more line spacing..
I would expect if you don't set app performance per application it has defaults though?!.
They went from the great start menu(winxp < vista < 7) to that abomination(windows 8.1 start menu) and then getting back to 7 in very small steps with 10.
MS is just a monopoly. They hired hipster managers and UI designers. They don't give a damn about user experience and their userbase.
Then again, what are we talking about: they're pushing updates to 10 and changing it like their is no tomorrow.
Hell, we could be running windows 11 right now. They were actually right when they said "the last version of windows".
The desktop is just an interface, and it's the easiest thing to change, a freaking theme and that is it.
They just don't care: monopoly once again.
those sandy bridge motherboards fail to die: I've got a great idea, boss: a new OS, new OS sales!
Small Update. I was able to write a sudo command in the powershell to delete the entire OS in one key stroke. Yay that was easy
and yeah i've been asked to repair and fix a few macs for friends and the damned OWNERS dont even know how to do basic tasks... ugh
Well seeing they just dropped 21h1 don't see a new windows until 22h1 or in English 2022 January-June maybe 21h2 though they are that compulsive at times lol
That's why I use linux.
Microsoft is a monopoly and should be regulated. I find it quite disconcerting that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google were recently listed by quite a few members of Congress as monopolies(a little later to the party ?), but Microsoft wasn't on the list. This company...starting with Windows 10 is the biggest offender?
Hell...If linux wasn't there...I'd use OS/2.
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I know I'll get used to whatever they vomit up, but Microsoft's 'change for the sake of change' has gotten really old.
And the first comment is what you said about secureboot and TPM fixing that issue.... but nah they cant retest that, they need their janky weird experience