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yeah let's go Windows 11 is no ordinary update but

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sitting through microsoft's dull and bug ridden announcement stream you never

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know it which is why a lot of what we're going to talk about was actually pulled

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from the fine print on microsoft's website and from our own first-hand

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experience with the leaked build from last week

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the good news is that there is a lot to talk about

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the bad news is that well not all the news is good news

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at first glance Windows 11 is little more than a major interface redesign on

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top of what is fundamentally Windows 10 but on closer inspection there is more

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going on under the hood than we gave it credit for in particular enhanced

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support for hybrid architecture processors with both a mix of

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performance and power saving CPU cores

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like Intel's lakefield that is going to be a big deal in very little time

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sorry for that the most obvious improvement is of

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course though the new visual design it's a frosted glass aesthetic with multiple

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theme styles rounded corners on Windows and a center aligned taskbar an

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optimization that microsoft made clear was for touch users

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do you feel that the new start menu clearly lifted from Windows 10 x is

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powered by the cloud which appears to be code for we included bing search as

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usual but hey now your recent documents will sync across devices if you're using

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office 365 so that's pretty cool

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there are more useful changes of course snap layouts let you quickly and easily

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tile Windows in different orientations similar to how the fancy zones power toy

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works today except it's significantly more user-friendly

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and significantly less configurable microsoft says that nobody else lets you

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do that with this many Windows nobody else lets you do this and that ended up

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being one of the biggest revelations of the presentation Linux has apparently

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been renamed to nobody else os they do

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bring something new to the table here though Windows groups this way will

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group together in the taskbar and be treated like a single item so you can

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switch to and from a window layout on the fly and your multiple virtual

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desktops can now be customized with different wallpapers to make it easier

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to keep track of them it's kind of like customizing your water bottle with the

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stickers you get for free with your order from lttstore.com

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what's more they finally fixed the issue where Windows would rearrange themselves

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semi-randomly when monitors are disconnected and reconnected so instead

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they will minimize Windows that were on the removed display and then put them

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all back when you reconnect this is going to make docking a laptop way less

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frustrating although i'm not sure what happens if you disconnect the display

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then interact with those programs then reconnect it i guess we'll see

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there's more for all-in-ones and touch displays in general as well touch

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targets are bigger now with more visual feedback and there's a new on-screen

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keyboard that we didn't get to properly test drive just yet that looks a lot

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like the iOS keyboard right down to the ability to move the cursor around by

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holding the spacebar but that's all boring productivity stuff what about

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gaming well after debuting on the xbox series x

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auto HDR is coming to Windows and direct

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storage support is baked into Windows 11 at the os and driver level that's going

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to bring Windows more in line with xbox from a feature standpoint and personally

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i am really excited to see both of these in action i mean given the Windows

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team's historically terrible HDR

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implementation i'm hesitantly optimistic

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about automatically converting older non-HDR games to HDR but direct storage

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which allows your GPU to access your system's game drive or really any other

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drive directly should substantially improve loading times in games once it's

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supported investigating these features is going to make for some really

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interesting videos and you're going to want to make sure that you're subscribed

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xbox game pass is now integrated into the xbox app that comes with Windows and

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we got more promises of cross-platform play as is the tradition by now though

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we have no idea how many titles will support it if it's going to be difficult

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to support it if it's a system-wide thing or what though at least with sony

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also finally talking more favorably about cross play it feels like the light

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at the end of this tunnel is finally visible

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the additions to pen input look pretty sweet and microsoft has added haptic

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feedback to simulate the feel of different tools as you're using them

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there's not really a whole lot else for us to say about that because they only showed it briefly and the same goes for

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screen rotation which is much more streamlined now with Windows rotating

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smoothly with the display and tiled Windows in landscape mode stacking onto

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each other rather than arranging unpredictably like they used to speaking

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of unpredictable teams is now integrated

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into Windows directly i can't say i predicted that when did

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everyone start using teams am i out of touch no it's the children who are wrong

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there's now a dedicated icon for teams then that gives you what looks like a

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searchable jump list of recent contacts and buttons for interacting them and i

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i'm just not sure this is what anyone was asking for but hey at least

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microsoft has something akin to imessage and facetime built in so

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that's cool i guess there was a brief mention about dictation and voice

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commands as well so presumably that is also an upgrade to compete with siri on

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macOS ah macOS they made a big deal about how teams

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works on any platform and it wasn't the only thing that felt like an unnecessary

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dig at apple even the faq page on their website has this kind of thing in place

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of genuinely useful information guys

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microsoft we want to know how much it's going to cost standalone obviously

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computers cost anywhere from here to here i guess we'll know soon enough though

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when it pops up in the Windows store yes the Windows store

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now with the ability to show movies tv shows and other content regardless of

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the streaming service and integration with the amazon app store yes my friends

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you can now run Android apps directly in

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Windows there's no word yet on whether side loading is possible or if you're

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stuck with the amazon store but this is still really cool as for why they're

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doing it our best guess is that if enough people run Android apps on

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Windows developers will finally buy into microsoft's pitch about how it's super

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easy to port your apps natively to the Windows store and enjoy microsoft's

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industry-leading rev share and support for outside payment processors finger

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guns and i guess the end goal then would be to kill the Windows store's current

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ghost town vibe speaking of things deceased but now brought back to life

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the new widgets panel is nothing like gadgets and vista microsoft describes

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them as a beautiful sheet of glass powered by ai in effect they're pretty

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much the news and interests panel that microsoft added to Windows 10 in the 21

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h1 update but with some additional features and the ai is

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well it's news that um is tailored to your interests

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they can be brought up or dismissed by swiping in from the left edge of the

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screen on a touchscreen or clicking the icon in the taskbar of course the

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biggest question is pricing and availability they didn't talk about this

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much in the presentation but from the faq we've put together that it will be a

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free update for Windows 10 users and it'll start shipping in late 2021 on new

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pcs with standalone copies available in early 2022 as for pricing if i had to

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guess i'd say it'll be a hundo for home and a hundo plus for pro otherwise smart

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people would all just buy Windows 10 which costs that amount and then upgrade

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it for free another thing microsoft didn't tell us

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and buried in the faq system requirements

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as we've already seen Windows 11 requires secure boot and tpm 2.0 to

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function as a security measure this is

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hands down going to create the most confusion for end users around this

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launch and microsoft makes their own life more

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difficult for no apparent reason because instead of just saying when you go to

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install it hey you need this trusted platform module chip and secure boot

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enabled in your UEFI BIOS microsoft just gives you this ambiguous error that says

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your system isn't compatible why Windows 11 also requires two or more CPU

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cores four gigs of RAM 64 gigs of storage and a directx 12 compatible GPU

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don't have all that stuff i don't know go buy a new pc i guess says microsoft

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what's more troubling however is this note that Windows 11 home edition

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requires an internet connection and a microsoft account to complete first time

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setup and this is a weird one you actually get fewer features for using a

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microsoft account desktop wallpaper is no longer synced with your microsoft

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account between devices though i personally actually just found that feature kind of annoying and the

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timeline feature has been removed

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there's more the taskbar is now locked to the bottom of the screen the start

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menu no longer has support for folders or groups live tiles are gone the menu

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itself cannot be resized and tablet mode is gone and replaced with the new touch

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inputs not all the changes we had to dig for are bad though cortana mercifully

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won't bug you during first time setup nor take up unnecessary space on the

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taskbar by default so it's just baffling that the stuff wasn't touched on during

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the event because a lot of it seems pretty important to me

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now it's unclear how the Windows 11 leak occurred before the big reveal today

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some have speculated that it was on purpose but what we know for sure is

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that it was a significantly older build than what they just showed and that

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there's no immediate pressure for you to upgrade the october 14th 2025 retirement

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date puts Windows 10 service life at just over 10 years that's just a few

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months short of Windows 7's was it a good operating system

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i don't know if it'll be remembered as fondly as Windows 7 was but it was

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definitely better than the mess that was Windows 8 so here's hoping then that

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microsoft finally manages to break the good bad good bad pattern and keep that

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positive momentum going when Windows 11 finally reaches our pcs

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necessary thanks for watching guys go check out our first look of the leaked

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build of Windows 11 for some more Windows goodness i promise there's

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more information in there than in microsoft's presentation today Anthony

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was real salty about having to get up at six to sit through that thing i had to

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desultify the script a little

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i did not water it down i desalinated it