![]() ![]() In 2021, Microsoft promised that DirectStorage would be made available to both Windows 10 and Windows 11 users, good news for those who don’t want to upgrade. If that’s the case, you can’t help but be a bit suspicious of DirectStorage, the next-generation storage accelerator that Microsoft is promising. In fairness, Windows 11 is a little faster, but just not that much to be significant. Simply put, there just isn’t any measurable performance difference between Windows 10 and Windows 11 right now. Unfortunately, our recent tests don’t bear that out. Intel’s Thread Director is supposed to work on both Windows 10 and Windows 11, but with improvements that would make Windows 11 faster. If you’re running a laptop with an Intel Core CPU inside of it (and more than 80 percent of laptops sold during 2022 included an Intel chip inside) Microsoft and Intel teamed up to offer Thread Director, a software API that controls how the various performance and efficiency cores of Intel’s Core architecture interact with the operating system. On paper, there’s another compelling reason to move to Windows 11: performance. But it’s to Microsoft’s credit that no major exploit really plagued Windows 10 or Windows 11. No one, least of all Microsoft, wants PC users to be hacked. In the end, the hassle of upgrading an older PC to Windows 11 might make some people ride out Windows 10 until they get a new PC. Then there were the exceptions, and the workarounds. For a while, the restrictions that Microsoft put on the available supported processors made Windows 11 desirable no one likes being told that they can’t upgrade, especially when they’ve paid good money for an existing PC. Quite frankly, the transition to Windows 11 has always been surrounded by a “will they or won’t they approach” to Windows 11’s hardware requirements. All of these subscriptions will work on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. Add to that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and Microsoft 365 itself-heck, even Solitaire had a subscription to eliminate ads before it was added to Game Pass. Both, however, come with subscriptions: Clipchamp’s “professional” offering, and Designer by being part of Microsoft 365. Some of these applications, like Clipchamp and Designer, are web “apps” specifically designed to run on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. It makes sense, then, that Microsoft would continue doubling down on what makes it money, subscriptions, and make those subscriptions available to as many people as possible. But sales of Microsoft’s Productivity and Business business have increased, primarily because the business unit makes money on Office subscriptions for consumers and corporations. Microsoft’s More Personal Computing Business (Windows and Xbox) has steadily lost money over the past year, as sales of PCs and Xbox consoles have slowed. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has referred to Windows as a “socket” for Windows services, and while it’s fair to say that the company is prioritizing Windows 11, Microsoft loves subscription revenue even more. Yes, Windows 11 does offer some exclusive new apps, but not that many. Windows 10 will get new apps via subscriptions anyway ![]() You’re guaranteed a consistent experience until Windows 10 runs out of support in 2025. Sometimes it’s just easier to stick with the tried and true.Īs we noted above, too, Microsoft’s declaration that it won’t add any more new features to Windows 10 may be appealing to some. The new interface is very similar, but also very different. While we’re not claiming that Windows 11 is radically different than Windows 10, upgrading comes with its own potential hassles, unexpected tweaks to Settings and other preferences, and so on. If you know Windows 10, why not stick with it? Android 13 should be arriving soon, as it’s available as an upgrade for Windows Insiders. But it’s something you’re not going to find on Windows 10. Granted, the Amazon Android app store works best on tablets, and for those who like mobile games. ![]() If you try downloading it on Windows 10, the OS will try to load the legacy Groove Music app instead.Ī better example would be Windows’ new Android apps, once just a few hundred and now into the thousands, according to Microsoft and Amazon. While not all of Microsoft’s new applications seem to be reserved for Windows 11 (like the updated, worse Photos app, for example) a couple are: the spiffy new Windows Media Player, for example. Microsoft’s many development teams continue to work on parallel tracks: on the operating system itself, on Office, services, and more. Still, it’s a feature that’s exclusive to Windows 11. We can’t make too much of this, as the “feature” is really just a shortcut to the Bing site, which opens within Edge. Bing Chat appears in Windows 11’s Search feature, but not in Windows 10. One of those new features is Bing Chat, the AI chatbot link that Microsoft added via its Windows 11 Feb. ![]()
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