Microsoft announces Windows 11, will be a free upgrade

Windows 10 will be supported until Oct. 14, 2025. Though I think it will get security patches for even longer. Probably much longer, as Microsoft is on record as having said Windows 10 would be the last release of Windows, and it would be terrible public relations if millions of people had their PCs infected by viruses and malware due to lack of updates to Windows Defender. I think Microsoft will continue updating that until people's computers are truly overdue for a replacement due to the hardware failing.

I had to enable two things in BIOS that aren't default settings, in order to have Microsoft's Windows 11 readiness testing utility tell me that I was ready for Windows 11. When the BIOS gets updated, and I recently performed that, it reverts to default settings.

Yadda yadda yadda, I had to enable Secure Boot, and I had to enable something known as AMD CPU fTPM. I guess with Intel motherboards it has a slightly different designation. But it's about enabling the Trusted Platform Module.

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No worries, all will be clear by year's end, with numerous guides floating around, and with zero need to hurry and get ready for Windows 11. Though I expect new PCs that are hardware capable of running Windows 11 will start advertising that, so if buying a new PC I'd want that.

I think there's a real possibility that Microsoft will eventually release a version of Windows 11 that allows almost any machine running Windows 10 to update. They might give it a designation like Widows 11 Lite, or Windows 10.5, but I think their main goal is to just get the ball rolling in getting people to migrate to the new operating system.

The European Union would be all over them if they see customers as having been abused.

It will be the same old shit with a new coat of paint. Wanna impress me? Native LDAC support and being able to rename folders while you're copying files to them...