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Microsoft Releases Windows 11, Mac Virtualization Support Still Seems Unlikely
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Well you can always use the Windows upgrade tool to upgrade instantly so wouldn’t really call it slow.
And give up backwards compatibility -- no way, no how, businesses wouldn't stand for it, that's how they got to be the dominant OS. That's what Apple does and why they aren't as dominant.Who know why they do things but Windows should drop old things and really rewrite the OS that would help
Running Windows 11 perfectly fine on my 9900k/ RTX 3080 Ti gaming rig. It’s better than Bug Sur that’s for sure.
While Windows still has the majority of desktop market share, it’s roughly 75% is not the 90% + dominance it once had.
MacOS is up to around 15% and if you add the huge iOS mobile base into the mix, you might see why Microsoft could be a bit concerned.
MacOS is up to around 15% and if you add the huge iOS mobile base into the mix, you might see why Microsoft could be a bit concerned.
Exactly. I work for a very large hospital system in the Chicagoland area (11 Hospitals) and at one point calls in for support on Apple Devices was "best effort". Then our DSS teams started using JAMF. Now we've got a dedicated TEAM of people spread across the area specifically for Apple Support. Things ARE changing, and the Enterprise space is catching up, albeit very very slowly. That's more due to price than anything. In our environment we mainly use Citrix, so Macs work great, too, and it makes it easier for people to BYOD. I'd think if Apple offered the same incentives as Microsoft does, price-wise, that 15% would go higher. But considering how cheap PCs can be, I don't think Apple will ever overcome Microsoft's share in the work world.
Yep. After the computer world pretty much “figured things out” in the late 00’s as far as well-refined interfaces that were rather intuitive and well-understood by all, the flurry of re-imagined interfaces by Apple and Windows have been mostly lipstick on a pig…unnecessary plastic surgery…change for the sake of change.
I'm running it under Parallels on a 2018 MBP and performance is fine.
MS have been doing this for years .. 21H2= 2021 2nd Half of the year. They've done 1903 for 3rd quarter of 2019 etc etc.
Installed Windows 11 as soon as the ISO went live.
In VMware Fusion Player it’s much slower than Windows 10 even with effects turned down.
On a PC I set up dual boot of Win 10 and Win 11.
Win 11 is quite rough around the edges. It has some really illogical and clumsy UI decisions. They just don’t have specialist UI designers at Microsoft.
A lot of Windows XP still exists. The Control Panel, Device Manager, Disk Management etc haven’t been updated for 15-20 years. You have to use the classic Control Panel for many options because the Settings app is still very basic and messy.
Graphically it feels slower at the moment than Windows 10 and it’s tricky to grab and drag corners of windows.
The Widgets feature is dumb and I disabled it immediately. They should have put widgets in the Notification Center like macOS does. Having this dumb button on the task bar is a waste of space.
Windows Task View still isn’t as good as Mission Control. Doesn’t have customizable hot corners. Windows Snap is always good though and macOS should have that.
Yeah it’s blah. It’s just Windows XP on with a newer skin. This is like the sixth version of Windows XP with the sixth skin.
The funniest thing is you have to right click twice on the Desktop or in the File Explower to get all the options. That’s so stupid. Right click twice just to see two more advanced options.
Many file types don’t have thumbnail support yet. So you can’t see previews of PSD files and even some PDFs files.
Drag a document to an app icon doesn’t open the document. So Windows is 30 years behind macOS on that simple feature.
In VMware Fusion Player it’s much slower than Windows 10 even with effects turned down.
On a PC I set up dual boot of Win 10 and Win 11.
Win 11 is quite rough around the edges. It has some really illogical and clumsy UI decisions. They just don’t have specialist UI designers at Microsoft.
A lot of Windows XP still exists. The Control Panel, Device Manager, Disk Management etc haven’t been updated for 15-20 years. You have to use the classic Control Panel for many options because the Settings app is still very basic and messy.
Graphically it feels slower at the moment than Windows 10 and it’s tricky to grab and drag corners of windows.
The Widgets feature is dumb and I disabled it immediately. They should have put widgets in the Notification Center like macOS does. Having this dumb button on the task bar is a waste of space.
Windows Task View still isn’t as good as Mission Control. Doesn’t have customizable hot corners. Windows Snap is always good though and macOS should have that.
Yeah it’s blah. It’s just Windows XP on with a newer skin. This is like the sixth version of Windows XP with the sixth skin.
The funniest thing is you have to right click twice on the Desktop or in the File Explower to get all the options. That’s so stupid. Right click twice just to see two more advanced options.
Many file types don’t have thumbnail support yet. So you can’t see previews of PSD files and even some PDFs files.
Drag a document to an app icon doesn’t open the document. So Windows is 30 years behind macOS on that simple feature.
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Trust me, Microsoft isn't concerned about iOS taking any market share away from Windows and are probably not looking over their shoulders on where MacOS is. Microsoft has the enterprise section owned and could live happily just off that and that's not even including Azure and upcoming Viva integrated deeply in the enterprise sector. MS could loose all consumer license and still be happy.
Just installed it on my 2017 15" MacBook Pro, running Parallels 17. Rather impressed as to how well it runs. My machine is a 3.1Ghz i7 with 16GB RAM. Decent spec's back in the day. I use VM's quite frequently so I have always purchased MacBook Pro's. I moved across to Parallels a number of years back as I also found Fusion ran rather chunky, considering the hardware I had. Maybe a coincidence (shrug?) but I have not wanted to go back to Fusion since changing over.
I'm installing via VMware Fusion now. No problems so far. I did have to create a virtual TPM 2.0 module but that took 5 seconds.
My custom built PC in 2020 doesn’t meet the requirements due to no TPM. Windows 11 is going to be very niche for a while.
If it is just about any processor from 2018+ you can enable Secure Boot in BIOS and you’ll have TPM. Doesn’t need the module.
As we move more towards a hybrid professional work environment, the ability for big apps to be web based or functional for a remote worker becomes critical. My son who does intensive animation work has a big box PC but nothing runs locally - it’s all through remote sessions. And if you want to tie workflows together, that becomes even more important. The end user’s computer is just a window.
in my world, having a local VM is really helpful but its becoming less of an issue. I‘m preparing for the day when I can give up my Intel MacBook Pro for an Apple Silicon one. No way I’m going back to a PC brick.
in my world, having a local VM is really helpful but its becoming less of an issue. I‘m preparing for the day when I can give up my Intel MacBook Pro for an Apple Silicon one. No way I’m going back to a PC brick.
