Oh it will be the year of the Windows 11 refresh, there’s no question of that. Untold millions of business PCs will be making the change as Windows 10 goes EoL.
It’s a very different story in the home market. Frankly the only thing holding Windows Gaming in place is decades of increasing personal PC ownership but that ownership / use rate is now decliningas normal people transition to using smartphones and tablets.
In just a few short years, ten at most, gaming on Windows will be about as relevant as gaming on Mac. It may still be called “PC Gaming”, you can already see media trying to redefine gaming on SteamDeck and other handhelds as “PC Gaming”, but those games won’t be built around the Windows OS.
At my organization (tens of thousands of machines) IT has been racking their brains because W11 is such a pain to manage at scale in comparison to W10. It’s been causing more work, so much that the upgrade was postponed to next year and are considering paying for the extended support. W11 really is just that shitty. Managing the upgrades alone feels like arcane magic.
Wait. Since when has Microsoft’s Windows team been drinking from the same copium jars as us Linux users have for years?
That’s hilarious.
Oh it will be the year of the Windows 11 refresh, there’s no question of that. Untold millions of business PCs will be making the change as Windows 10 goes EoL.
It’s a very different story in the home market. Frankly the only thing holding Windows Gaming in place is decades of increasing personal PC ownership but that ownership / use rate is now declining as normal people transition to using smartphones and tablets.
In just a few short years, ten at most, gaming on Windows will be about as relevant as gaming on Mac. It may still be called “PC Gaming”, you can already see media trying to redefine gaming on SteamDeck and other handhelds as “PC Gaming”, but those games won’t be built around the Windows OS.
This. Family have even ditched laptops for tablets, and businesses would definitely not risk a new eco system just because of 11
At my organization (tens of thousands of machines) IT has been racking their brains because W11 is such a pain to manage at scale in comparison to W10. It’s been causing more work, so much that the upgrade was postponed to next year and are considering paying for the extended support. W11 really is just that shitty. Managing the upgrades alone feels like arcane magic.