<story><title>Windows 11 available on October 5</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/08/31/windows-11-available-on-october-5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkangel</author><text>I was really hoping that we were past having to think about different versions of Windows. Microsoft hyped Windows 10 as the &amp;#x27;last version of Windows&amp;#x27; and that&amp;#x27;s how it should be. But now we have to go through this stupid cycle again, wasting user and IT department time doing upgrades, as well as developer time worrying about version support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neogodless</author><text>Within Windows 10, the updates really were versions in several significant ways.&lt;p&gt;- They have support end dates!&lt;p&gt;- Hardware support can vary between version (updates). I could not even get Windows 10 Build 1903 to boot with a newer GPU. I had to boot using the iGPU and update to 21H1, and then I could boot. Trying to install the driver on 1903, the installer said this version of Windows was not supported (!)&lt;p&gt;- The UI can be changed. Just one small example, early versions of Windows Hello did not support using a PIN to login. Later versions started to roll back all the pushes to use Cortana.</text></comment>
<story><title>Windows 11 available on October 5</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/08/31/windows-11-available-on-october-5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkangel</author><text>I was really hoping that we were past having to think about different versions of Windows. Microsoft hyped Windows 10 as the &amp;#x27;last version of Windows&amp;#x27; and that&amp;#x27;s how it should be. But now we have to go through this stupid cycle again, wasting user and IT department time doing upgrades, as well as developer time worrying about version support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbn</author><text>I have to assume Windows 11 basically only exists because of pressure from OEMs who want to be able to slap a big mark on the box of their new laptops highlighting that it runs a new OS that your old machine can&amp;#x27;t run.&lt;p&gt;And this idea is supported by the fact that Windows 11 is only officially supported on the very latest CPUs for more or less arbitrary reasons.</text></comment>