Windows upgrade is like a siege, people who can't upgrade want to upgrade, people who upgrade want to go back.
The new features installed in the preview version are dazzling, attracting users to update; when users upgrade, they find that the new system is full of problems of one kind or another, which makes people regret it. Fortunately, Windows provides a revertable function within 7 days, giving the early adopter a regret pill.
Unfortunately, I was the one who was intoxicated with the upgrade and missed the expiration date of the regret pill.
Post-tile era, fruity Windows
Regarding Microsoft, the founder of Windows, Jobs's sentence is believed to be engraved in the hearts of many people: "Microsoft's biggest problem is that they have no taste." Joe's bosses believe that Microsoft is "a big problem", they don't value original ideas, and they don't inject much culture into the product.
Jobs's words are not the same. We just witnessed the era of Microsoft's most creative explosion, about 10 years ago.
They brought the Metro UI on Windows XP Media Center and ZUNE players from behind the scenes to the foreground, and the checkered tiles have since become a hallmark of Windows. This UI adheres to the principles of graphic design, the visual effects are refreshing, and its concept of blurring the boundaries between icons and widgets is extremely avant-garde.
Windows 8 and Windows Phone, which were born around 2011, are a "sharp outlier in the era of smoothness".
Ten years later, Windows 11 arrived, and the Metro UI gradually retreated from microsoft's center stage. Windows 11 is a major change in the history of Windows design, the sharp alien of live tiles has been abandoned, the Start menu has been centered, the app window and dialog boxes are fully rounded, and the vista and Win7 era widgets "Renaissance". Overnight, Windows 11 was unveiled as a big change, which made many old Windows users shine.
Overall, fruity.
Microsoft's creativity, like windows with rounded corners of Windows 11, has been smoothed out. Windows 11 abandoned the Metro UI, cut off windows phones, stopped UWP, and overturned the avant-garde ideas on Windows 8 and 10. On the other hand, Microsoft's friends enjoyed the "two creations", replaced the dynamic tiles with rounded corners, and turned them into small components of the new era; the idea of a unified Windows PC, mobile phone, and tablet was picked up by Apple to cultivate an exclusive cross-platform unified ecology.
Under the reshaping of the concept, has Windows 11 become as tempting as Microsoft wants? At least for now, not yet.
bug，bug，bug！
When it comes to Windows upgrades, the most heart-wrenching problem is the various bugs that make people crazy. Windows history has a variety of upgrade problems precedents, Vista this big overturn and not to mention, last April, a windows 10 update, led to the user game frame rate plummeted, blue screen and other issues.
What about a big update like Windows 11? Unsurprisingly, something went wrong. Soon after the official launch of Windows 11, a vicious bug fell on the head of AMD users: L3 cache was greatly decelerated and latency increased significantly. Relatively speaking, Intel processors did not encounter this problem, it just so happened that the 12th generation Core was almost launched at the same time as Windows 11, and some netizens complained that Microsoft was not deliberately acting as an "A black".
The AMD processor L3 cache slows down dramatically
(Picture from Notebookcheck)
Fortunately, Microsoft and AMD quickly noticed the problem, and AMD said that it was "not a big problem" and that the impact on performance was probably only "3%-5%." A few weeks after the official launch of Windows 11, the corresponding patch fix was released.
AMD-specific bugs have at least been fixed, but Windows 11 still has a large number of bugs to fix. The problem of screen flickering when switching input methods has almost continued from the initial version to the latest preview version, and it still needs to be fixed.
The painting of the pie is slowly burned, and the function is still chopping and chopping
In addition to various bugs, the official version of Windows 11 is also missing one of the most important features: the Android subsystem.
In addition to a large number of UI updates, the Android subsystem is the most high-profile feature of Windows 11, which can compensate for the ecological flaws of Windows on touch devices such as tablets. However, after the official launch of Windows 11, the Android subsystem function was announced to be late, and it was initially only open to some beta test users in the United States. It wasn't until this month's latest Windows 11 Build 22000.527 (KB5010414) experience update that the feature was fully open beta — however, again, it's only available to users in the United States.
It's much more than that. Even if the new features are late, some of the old features are missing, and they are reflected in the Start menu and taskbar.
The start menu of Windows 11 may be the worst in recent generations of Windows, which has attracted major media and netizens to complain. Windows 11's Start Menu doesn't support resizing or full screen, and no matter how large the display you're using, it only appears as a small piece.
The number of single-screen apps supported by the Start menu is a fixed 3 rows and 6 columns, a total of 18, the "Recommended Items" in the lower half of the menu is not allowed to be closed, and in the case that you turn off the display of recommended apps, Microsoft would rather leave this column blank than allow you to display other apps.
It is not easy to use at the same time do not let you choose, this is not similar to some of the domestic software that we spit on every day?
The taskbar has a similar setting: it can only be fixed at the bottom of the screen, not to the left and right sides or the top. The taskbar drag-and-drop function is missing, and it cannot be opened by dragging files to the taskbar program, nor can it be quickly fixed by dragging and dropping the program to the taskbar.
Obviously, Windows 11's start menu and taskbar have been epicly weakened, not only breaking the user's usage habits, but also deliberately increasing the number of operation steps. We thought Microsoft was deliberately adopting such a setting, until we saw that Microsoft added the taskbar drag-and-drop function back in the latest Dev preview build 22557. If you knew that, why did you do it in the first place?
Windows Dev Preview Build 22557,
Taskbar drag and drop to open the function resurrection
Cut first and then add, repeatedly jump, such a thing, Microsoft has not done less. The most classic case is that Microsoft cut the start menu/screen power button on Windows 8, when you need to shut down, you need to use gestures to draw out the menu, click "settings - power - shutdown" in turn, creating the most complex shutdown operation in history.
Admittedly, with the help of "Alt+F4" key combinations and custom command line + shortcuts, you can still shut down your computer quickly, and the problems we mentioned can also be remedied with the help of third-party tools. But how many people can solve all these problems smoothly? Take Windows 8, which cut off the power button, those ordinary users who are highly dependent on the mouse and do not understand the shortcut keys, when they can't find the shutdown button, do they have any choice but to directly unplug the power cord?
That's why a "How to shut down your Windows 8 PC" video on YouTube garnered nearly 160,000 views.
Windows 11 is still half-finished
Microsoft's attitude towards Windows 11 is somewhat contradictory, on the one hand, it urges users to upgrade for a limited period of free, and on the other hand, it sets up hardware thresholds and restricts user updates by limiting the processor and must have TPM modules. Of course, these restrictions may also be due to OEM pressure to use Windows 11 to increase PC hardware sales.
Microsoft hinted at a Windows 11 update that charges may apply
So is Windows 11 good or bad? Overall it was good. In the case of the Start Menu, Microsoft slashed the edgy but difficult Metro UI and returned to a more easy-to-use drawer, launcher design. In addition, although Microsoft has cut the tablet mode, the pleasant spacing between text and graphic elements and intuitive touch gestures still take good care of the experience of touch screen devices. Windows 11's fast split-screen operation is also the most concise and efficient in today's desktop system.
But today's Windows 11, bugs continue, heavy features are still polished, all kinds of confusing settings... It's been four months since the official release was launched, and Windows 11 is still like a semi-finished product. At least from my perspective, upgrading Windows 11 leaves me remorseful. Are the friends who upgraded to Windows 11 the same as me?
Even so, the system is of course still new and best, and the Windows 10 system will stop supporting it in 2025, and sooner or later we will have to use Windows 11. We only hope that Microsoft's plan is not to exhaust these three years to polish Windows 11 into a true official version.
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