{"id":2275,"date":"2021-10-12T10:14:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T14:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2021-10-12T10:14:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T14:14:41","slug":"windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/12\/windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/windows_11_generic_hero_1-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2276\" width=\"510\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/windows_11_generic_hero_1-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/windows_11_generic_hero_1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/windows_11_generic_hero_1-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/windows_11_generic_hero_1-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Microsoft released the newest version of their operating system, Windows 11.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve been testing it and it looks like a nice step in the evolution of Windows.&nbsp; These days, operating system updates are smaller, incremental updates rather that huge \u201cre-imagining\u201d of the software, which is good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what\u2019s new?&nbsp; Well . . . lots of little stuff, not much big stuff.&nbsp; It has an updated look, more modern, more colorful.&nbsp; There is going to be tighter Microsoft Teams integration for consumers, which is interesting, though we\u2019ll see whether anyone uses it.&nbsp; They plan to be able to run Android apps in Windows 11, though this feature isn\u2019t available yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As IT professionals, we mostly want Microsoft to not break the things that work.&nbsp; In its infancy, Windows 11 will have its issues like any new piece of software.&nbsp; We\u2019ll wait until after the first couple of updates before using it full-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For our clients, we do not plan to update any workstations to Windows 11 currently.&nbsp; Any new workstation purchases will have Windows 10 on them.&nbsp; There are no business reasons to upgrade.&nbsp; Windows 10 will be supported for another 5 years.&nbsp; Once Windows 11 has been out for a while longer, we\u2019ll decide on when new machines will get Windows 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should you update your home machine?&nbsp; Again, I would say \u201cnot right now\u201d.&nbsp; The way people usually get their new operating systems is when they buy a new computer.&nbsp; If you are in the market for a new personal machine and the new one will have Windows 11, then it is fine, and you can use it without a problem.&nbsp; But it isn\u2019t worth the hassle and possible problems to try to upgrade an existing Windows 10 installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Microsoft released the newest version of their operating system, Windows 11.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve been testing it and it looks like a nice step in the evolution of Windows.&nbsp; These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}