Windows 11 is mostly irrelevant. Out of the business sector, where only office really matters, all that is left is enthusiasts. The remainder of the users buy ass end hardware by the lowest bidder, install chrome and use that as a web terminal.
every corp windows install has the store disabled. Every consumer windows install has the store abandoned or ignored. Absolutely no one wants or needs Android apps on their windows lump. They have android tablets available for pocket money that already do that.
The only truth here is that the end users look at this and go “oh **** not again” after spending the last 5 years poked in the eye by windows 10.
MSFT need to tidy their **** up, clean out legacy, fix bugs and give an honest user focused experience rather than throwing poop at everything and see what sticks.
As a system admin and IT Manager.
Windows 10 on it's own has been an absolutely cluster**** to maintain and deploy due to microsoft's abusive over-reach into the OS.
When Win10 launched it wasn't that bad. But they've been making life difficult for sysadmins. Win10 has bloated beyond belief. when we started deploying it, it would install around 10-15gb, run lean around 1gb of RAM on fresh install.
but over the years, it's grown to a fresh install closer t 40gb. So much "security theatre" that does NOTHING has been introduced that has made it next to impossible to actually have a fully locked down secured environment. I'm in banking. I'm heavily regulated and have to have heavy restrictions and lockdowns on the end user. Microsoft with win10 has made that incredibly difficult. ADMX's that don't work or launched months after feature sets. Restrictions on Powershell scripts even when signed. forced signing and integrations into AD's just to do basic things.
Nevermind the bloatware that ships with win10 that gets reinstalled on major patching. Or the fact you have to as an admin write custom powershell scripts just to remove **** so it doesn't re-install on every new user.
Win10 barely works anymore with VDI Horizons. I spend hours of my day ****ing with the registry and GPO's to get anything working (and half the time still windows bugs out and overrides Horizon's configurations). Nothing more frustrating than windows 10 reseting every users default Adobe handler on login, or deciding to crash out half way through GPO application so users are flooding my helpdesk with "where's my printers" or "where's my shared drives"
My fear is what else is going to break with Win11. They break something with every feature release with win10 on the back end.
it's not just end users I think that are going to shrug and decide if they're starting all over again, maybe worth it to go Linux instead. As a system administrator, After the win11 annoucnement, I have decided that Win10 is likely going to be the last windows my network sees. I am now investigating replcaing windows VDI images with Ubuntu if I can. I've already got my VP testing out a linux laptop and he's thrilled by it compared to his old Windows one.
I legitimately think Microsoft is in a "make work" mode, and 80% of the stuff they've been dumping into Win10 is absolutely spaghetti code being thrown at the wall because Microsoft is looking for reasons to keep developing. I've legitimately had conversations with engineers in Microsoft's development teams and they 100% do not have any system administrators reviewing what they're releasing. All the management and configuration oversight is ad-hoc AFTER they've dumped this **** on us.
Heck, Like Teams. I can go into the Teams administrative site, Pull a complete list of a users call times, mesage history etc... but NOBODY at microsoft thought that we'd have the need to export that information. What ****ing ignoramuses are developing at Microsoft these days. It legit wasn't this bad 5 years ago.
