I simply cannot understand this - when Microsoft had the genius vision to join OpenAI, suddenly it is a monopoloy. Google, AWS never had this future sight and is jealousy it seems. Google has a great system called Gemini 2.0, in my view betetr than ChatGPT, so why push for OpenAI as well ?

Update rings in Intune is absolutely the way to go for workstation patching. WSUS is utterly useless in this scenario.

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What is the reluctance to switch from 10 to 11? My old devices incapable of running Windows 11 (typically running Windows 10 in 32-bit mode with 2 GB RAM, slow CPU, and no TPM) have become pretty darn useless, barely fast enough to run KZbin without hesitancy. You wouldn't put up with such a spec in a phone. A typical Android or Apple phone has far more RAM, far more CPU cores, loads of storage, and is always 64-bit.

Need 100% of incoming and outgoing email stored locally so i can access all emails when off-line. I get copies are on MS servers but historically (over 30 years) I've needed access to emails when lost connections or when I've needed to be off-line. So 6 months ago switched to Thunderbird and transferred all pst's (around 20) to Thunderbird folders using a third party app (forget name right now)

As a “productivity tool”, it reduces my peoductivity by about 80%. It’s really sh*t.

We've had tremendous performance issues with New Outlook in our clients VDI platforms. It's been horrendous.

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I'm beyond tired of MS and Apple bullying. I'm ready to jump to Harmony OS

Windows wants to push? They'll find they can be replaced, 🔥🔥🔥

Windows has my permission to die. TPM = open Windows for Five Eyes. Hard Pass.

Win11 forced me out of a gaming computer due to upgrade cost. New board, new cpu, and while I have it tore apart do a gpu and some tidy work. Went to mac m1 for house compute needs and threw away the windows gaming rig. Steam is making a game OS so I will wait. Next build would be amd no intel parts! Hated windows after win7 anyway. They made a hard choice easy and I am a lot happier. Thanks.

So I have the version of Home win 11 21H2 now what ?

I've had it with MS and their shenanigans. I'll be keeping my current desktop PC and installing LDME version of Linux Mint. Bye bye MS.

I think Microsoft should consider changing Windows to a Linux Distro because Linux is going to replace Windows anway. No ones worried about the security for LInux and TPM chips.

Sometimes think Microsoft should just rewrite Windows as a linux distro. It would probably be able to run on more machines and woulld be more secure. It is good that they are more so sandboxing new installs in a temporary profile.

I think that, if Microsoft does not relax the restrictions, then they are shooting themselves in the foot. People are just not going to replace their machines.

Simple greed in part of Microsoft!! They can simply remove the TPM requirements

I think Microsoft forgot why many of their os did not do well or had slow adoption because they had stuff that Microsoft wanted or was so terribly implemented that was bad for either everyone else or at least the majority that it was only when Microsoft back tracked or fixed their mistake was there any change and increase in those number at all window me and windows 8.0 being perfect examples also TPMs are no better than a hardware version of two step verification by a circuit tied SIM card just it keeps it all in one place likely the only people who will thank Microsoft for forced TPM is the high tech hackers who only need that one point of attack to take control of a computer now and two step verification has been cracked now so how long is it going to be for TPM not long I think probably even easier with buggy intel chips older architecture as a hint on that one as example and also what I nickname to myself the crowd wave event when Microsoft and Crowdstrike on so many mistakes on so many levels messed up and basically lock people not far from that of ransom ware out of their computer and Microsoft want the world to give them more trust and they can not even get the management of what should have been a simple update right not to mention most places outside of America do not have in most case anywhere the amount of stable modern internet to make alway online accounts viable as even in the UK only about 1 out 5 areas have reliable communication and internet for something of that scale and that is generally just certain areas of the south of England mainly so think how it is for poorer or more sparse countries that is one of the other many reasons people like windows offline mode fixes a problem/failure that Microsoft internet providers and governments created in some shape or form and people in many case do not use Microsoft bitlocker and security software as there are softwares from other companies that out do a lot of those programs features and support Microsoft provide and in some case at less of a cost also never got why Microsoft try to force people to use their software when in certain clear examples they do not even aspect of their own software themselves and use other companies instead like for most of the operation of Microsoft’s data centres as an example if Microsoft do not use their software why must everyone else?.

Would be awesome if MS increased the 15 character limit for hostnames.

To answer your question: I opted out of Microsoft. I think that says it all.

I like Windows 10 - not a big fan of Windows 11. Have bought a Mac and will only use MS for Office. I've been an MS user since DOS.

The small businesses and other users will just carry on using unsupported windows 10 then so make things even worse. it should be optional but that doesn't force people to buy a new computer. I will be running some.

Windows 11 Minimum Requirements SHOULD be: 1 GHz or more 2 or more cores 64-bit CPU 4 GB RAM 64 GB storage And ONLY those requirements! --> This will JUST ABOUT manage to run Windows, but will be a slug, especially when you install some apps. Just like it worked before Windows 11; You simply add better components to suit your needs. I DON'T WANT or NEED a Microsoft account! M$ should stop hiding the Local Account option. It's MY COMPUITER!!! As for BitLocker and the TPM, consider what will happen if the TPM fails, or BitLocker needs your keys stored in your M$ account, but you can't boot to access your M$ account!! You will be LOCKED OUT of YOUR OWN SYSTEM!!! If you need drive encryption, use something that lets YOU CONTORL THE ENCRYPTION KEYS! Microsoft's motto: "If it ain't broke, 'fix' it 'til it is!"

I am a long time use of Windows. That stops when they made my 3 desktop workstations obsolete....

my alienware x51 r2 doesn't support windows 11 my 5 year old acer desktop does support windows 11 how ever i still have it on windows 10

My main desktop was updated to Win 11 without my permission... After a week I ended up wiping the drive and reinstalling Win 10. I disabled the TPM in BIOS so I don't have the same surprise again. Once Win 10 support is over, I'm fully switching to Linux and run some of my Win only tools in a VM.. I'm so done with Microsoft's BS..

Hardware is a distraction, the real problem is the spyware.

It’s Windows Vista all over again. Lots of complaints and noise over the requirements, and everyone ultimately upgraded to Vista or 7 anyway. Microsoft has such a monopoly that you will end up using their latest OS if you like it or not. And only a fraction of users will actually switch to Linux.

If they are going to make us use the new Outlook please add the Teams addin for creating meetings.

If one doesn't use MS online services (Office, cloud storage etc) then one should be able to opt out of forced MS account login yet local login is not possible in Windows 11. The fact that they don't allow users to operate without being logged into MS account breaks user trust. It Doesn't really matter what Microsoft says they do or don't do with user online data when people cannot trust what MS says.

I'm not at all surprised at Win11 less than expected market share. Microsoft has turned Windows into adware/spyware, and on top of that Microsoft unreasonable hardware restrictions will create a huge number of useless PCs. I suspect more and more people are/will install Linux on that "useless" hardware. I tried Linux on one of my laptops that doesn't qualify for Win11 and I liked it so much I purchased a new Dell XPS 15 that came with Win11.. I installed Linux on a second SSD making the machine dual bootable, Win11 & Linux. I'm so happy with Linux I rarely boot into Windows (once a month so it can get updates). The next year will be interesting to how everyone else handles this Microsoft indiscretion.

TPM requirement is I am sure a part of the equation but I hear more discomfort with how invasive Win11 is. From forced login to Microsoft account to eminent threats of the shark jumping Recall "feature", people want their computer to be THEIRS not Microsoft's and the overt shift to big brother invasive features by Microsoft has lead to an exodus. The only way one can have their own computer in 2024 is to avoid Windows 11 altogether.

There is one simple obvious solution… Have Win 11 Home as single user license without TPM reqmt. Have Win 11 Business with multiple user license with TPM reqmt. Why Microsoft doesn't want to take this route? I don't get it. Currently, people will need to replace their hardware. That's not making Microsoft any more money. In the other way, people will still use their OS.

This issue really doesn't impact large organizations, because they are leasing PCs for 3-5 years or simply replacing them after a similar period. Thus, anything they are running will handle Windows 11 unmodified. This really only impacts small businesses and home users who don't upgrade as frequently, though there are still a lot of such users. However, in a way, Microsoft is right to push OS-level encryption. The problem is they are doing it in the most self-serving way possible by trying to force a Microsoft account, even if that mitigates the problem of lost encryption keys due to hardware failure. It's the same story with One Drive. A good idea, but making it mandatory feels like it's more about the lock-in than helping users. Fortunately, thanks to government restrictions on PCs in secure areas, there will always be ways around all of that for Pro/Enterprise versions of Windows. However, that still leaves the CPU issue. I do think Microsoft should back off on the CPU requirement, as Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs are more than adequate to run Windows 11. I'm running 23H2 bare-metal on an i7-6700 system (Dell Optiplex) and it runs easily as well as Windows 10 did. It encodes video, handles light NAS services, etc. like a champ, and it has a TPM 2.0 chip in it. There are a ton of these machines that would be perfectly fine that will end up as e-waste or continue to run unsupported Windows 10. Simply backing off on the CPU requirement would go a long way IMO and still not hurt their "security profile"

I've been a Windows fanboy since Win95. Yesterday I bought my first Macbook. F Microsoft.

One thing they should do if they want to keep customers is ditch Recall and also start to allow offline accounts once again. It really is nice to just boot the computer and not have to worry about being denied access to your own computer for the most arbitrary or absurd reason. They just want spy on everything you do and lock you out for the most idiotic reasons. We must show them that we can not tolerate this and will not. There are better OSes that will run just fine on older hardware and one of the many Linux "distros" are that exact thing. They are much less bloated and they don't steal your system resources to use them to spy on you and possibly lock you out for the most absurd reason you have ever heard in your entire life! It is becoming obvious that Microsoft is complacent in treating customers like 💩so I feel we should return the favor!

We need Musk to create something like a "Tesla OS"! We need more options other than just the 3 main ones: Windows, Mac and Linux.

I can do TMP 2.0 and still will not switch. F them, im not learning that bogus new lay out, crammed full of copilot, for an OS I hate and only use when im writing music. USE LINUX! I know this guy isnt saying it so I will. Fuck Windows! Use Linux

In this days where we have chips with NPUs and everyone is talking about AI I wonder why are there only build in NPUs and not external NPUs (for PCIE) available/comming?

"..most people watching this channel does not fowllow..." Well, maybe they are like me, and use linux but got recommended this video. If you as a tech influencer does not use your "influence" on your viewer to INFORM THEM OF ALTERNATIVES I really don't have much respect for you. Microsoft are going WAY to far with their bs and disrespect against their users. You know, an alternative operating system that they do NOT have to pay for to get spied on, or handed ads to. TPM = better security my a** Remember how an img to the bios could break security? Where was the "tpm security" then hmm? I grant tpm is useful within userspace for example, but as a requirement for the os? I call bs. Watch a snapdragon or some other AI chipset become a requirement for win 12 so they can sell even more harware like they did with tpm, and add ever more to the e waste! 👍

Sorry Microsoft, your Windows 11 does not meet my security and privacy requirements

I have a 6 year old Lenovo Thinkpad that met all the Windows 11 requirements except for the CPU. I installed 24H2 from an ISO and other than initially getting a prompt indicating the unit did not meet the requirements, I did the Accept option and the install continued to completion. I have had no issues at all, and not even a watermark indicator that the system did not meet requirements. I am also getting all the updates being rolled out.

Fk Microsoft at this point tbh

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and eurhm when they gonna get a windows realease that just does what it needs to do and not drain from my laptop resources ? i dont need copilot, ai, fan,cy stuff, i just want an OS that just only runs the software i need when i double click on their icon?

whomever logs in as Admin Account is the biggest mistake. All my windows do not use Admin group ever unless i physically use a usb key to login. i keep usb out unless windows wants and if im not installing app i keep it out and do stuff then i logout.

The company to worry about is not Microsoft - rather it is Apple.

they can say whatever they want facts are facts they said windows 10 is the last windows then 11 is here