When the process is completed, Windows 11 greets you with your default desktop background, and a small collection of icons grouped together at the center of your taskbar. Mark Hachman / IDGĪ new font and some new artwork help pass the time during Windows 11 installation. The whole process was accompanied by rather psychedelic screens asking you to keep your PC plugged in, featuring slowly shifting colored backgrounds that slightly suggested a lava lamp.
While the OOBE experience may be different with a fresh PC you’ve just purchased, Windows 11 as an upgrade appears to leverage heavily what it already knows about you and your PC. In fact, the leaked build we tested offered little of the familiar experience at all, including ad preferences. What we didn’t see was the jarring “Hi, I’m Cortana!” voice that launches the Windows 10 out-of-the-box (OOBE experience). Much of the setup for Windows 11 should be familiar. We don’t recommend installing an untested Windows 10 or Windows 11 build from the web.) Mark Hachman / IDG (We ran into trouble installing Windows 11 on a virtual machine, so we formatted the Surface Pro 7+ tablet and installed it from a fresh install of Windows 10 21H1, signed into with a local account. The ISO itself weighed in at just over 4GB, and the Windows 11 installation process required 20 minutes or so of installation and several reboots. While we don’t have any performance metrics to compare performance before and after installing Windows 11, we can tell you that the experience felt decidedly snappy, though we ran into a few bugs.Īs you might expect, downloading and installing Windows 11 is a fairly major operation. We obtained Windows Dev build 21996.1 via a leak from the web, downloaded it, and installed it on a Microsoft Surface Pro 7+. We also have no idea what development stage our leaked build of Windows 11 represents. It’s worth noting that Microsoft hasn’t yet released Windows 11 officially, either as a public release or as part of the Windows Insider beta program. And make no mistake: The leaked version of Windows 11 we used advertises itself as Windows 11 throughout. Chief executive Satya Nadella calls it the next generation of Windows. The company also set the announcement for 11 a.m. On June 24, Microsoft will host a Windows event, promising “what’s next for Windows.” Microsoft teased the event with a graphic that showed light falling through a window to create a shadow that looked very much like the number 11.
0 kommentar(er)
