This is the easiest way to try out Windows 11 – albeit in a very limited fashion, it has to be said.
Windows 11 is, of course, still in preview at the moment, and installing an operating system in testing is a task that most folks won’t want to be bothered with – but there’s now another much easier option: simply give the OS a quick whirl in your browser. Okay, so upfront we should say that in case you’re imagining that this is some virtual desktop trickery to allow Windows 11 to run in a browser window, well, it isn’t anything of the sort. You’re not going to be ‘running’ Windows 11 in any way, virtually or otherwise, but what you can experience is a website – produced by software developer BlueEdge (as highlighted by Tom’s Hardware) – that offers an interactive demo of how Microsoft’s incoming operating system works. Check out the site here and have a play around to your heart’s content, but there are unsurprisingly strict limitations on what you can do. Only a small handful of functions and apps are active, but you get a good flavor of what’s on offer, and you can, for example, dip into the new Microsoft Store and explore the main panels of the UI (but nothing is active in terms of the actual content).
