After a couple of weeks using the beta and a week with the final version of Windows 11, I’ve yet to find a real reason to use it.
Sometimes, Microsoft has no choice but to upgrade Windows. Windows Millennium Edition, aka Windows Me, was awful. Its successor, Windows XP, was much better. XP’s replacement, Vista, was lousy. Microsoft made us forget about Vista with Windows 7, which to many people — I’m one of them — was the best version of Windows. Microsoft then tried, and failed, to replace it with the dismal Windows 8 and 8.1. Then, the company got it right again with Windows 10. That should have been the end of it. While Windows continued to get major updates, such as Windows 10 version 21H1, the brand was still Windows 10 until it wasn’t. So it is that we now have Windows 11. Do you notice a pattern here? Microsoft seems to alternate bad and then good operating systems releases. If Windows 10 was good, Windows 11 is going to be a poor successor. After working with Windows 11 for a few weeks, I wouldn’t call it bad. Instead, I find it pointless. Yes, the Windows 11 security updates are good — if you have the right hardware. But as I pointed out recently, you can already use those security updates if you’re running the Windows 10 20H2 release (Windows 10 October 2020 Update). So the point in upgrading from Windows 10 to 11 is…what, exactly? Some people think it looks nice. That’s a matter of taste. To me, it’s “Meh.” It’s Windows 10’s face with some cosmetic “improvements” such as a taskbar with all your icons centered by default.
