Microsoft has provided a nice selection of Windows 11 screenshots that show off some of the new features in this coming new product.
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<p>I doubt they’ve updated <em>all </em>the icons… I’m sure if you look in certain files, such as moricons.dll, you’ll still find lots of 16-colour (4-bit) legacy ones. Though I always wonder why this matters to people so much… unless you specifically go poking-around, you’ll never come-across them in normal use…</p>
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<p>"the ability to see the size of folders at a glance"</p><p><br></p><p>You can sort-of do this now, providing you use a mouse (not a touch-device): just hover-over a folder, and the screentip will tell you the totals-size of that folder. It won’t work for all folders though, and I don’t think it applies for any network drives, only internal or locally-attached ones</p>
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<p><em>"Look at the synergy they are building with </em>Your Phone<em>, largely with </em>Android<em>"</em></p><p><br></p><p>You mean <em>only with</em> Android — you can barely do anything with an <em>iPhone</em> in the <em>Your Phone </em>app!</p><p><br></p><p>And currently only a handful of <em>Samsung </em>phones are fully-supported: so the more-advanced features, like mirroring an app running on your phone onto your Windows 10 desktop, aren’t supported by all <em>Android </em>phones, even if they are running the latest Android OS!</p><p><br></p><p>I hope in <em>Windows 11</em> this sort of pointless esclusivity comes to an end…</p>
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<p><em>"Windows 11 adapts macOS UI Design”</em></p><p><br></p><p>Aside from the centred-icons on the <em>Taskbar </em>looking similar to how the <em>Dock </em>operates, I’m not-sure what else I’ve seen I’d generally say is <em>Big Sur-like</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>If anything, with all the emphasis on "glass-like" and "transparent" it seems <em>Aero </em>is making a return, from the <em>Vista </em>and <em>7 </em>days. Which is odd, as for <em>Windows 8</em>, they argued all the transparency effects were just a waste of CPU and hence why most were ditched…</p>
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<p>Android apps on Windows 11 was about the only <em>killer feature </em>(though given in Windows 10 they were able to add the <em>Windows Subsystem for Linux</em> in one of the major-updates, allowing you to run command-line and GUI Linux apps on Windows, did Android-app support really need to wait for 11?)</p><p><br></p><p>Though it’s still unclear how many apps will work, given some require (1) a <em>Google Account</em> to sign-in, or to make-use of some app features; (2) some of the <em>Google Play Services</em> to be present and (3) the <em>WebView </em>rendering-engine to be present. So compared to <em>iOS</em> and <em>iPadOS</em> apps on <em>macOS Big Sur</em>, you may find it more-limiting as to what will run on <em>Windows 11</em></p>
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<p>The "Health Tool" Microsoft has released seems to be reporting the vast-majority of PCs aren’t, going by reports. So I’d say to wait until an updated version is released.</p><p><br></p><p>As long as one of your devices meets these specs, Windows 11 should run:</p><p><strong>64-bit AMD, Intel or ARM CPU </strong>(at-least dual-core and 1Ghz or faster)</p><p><strong>4GB of RAM </strong>or more</p><p><strong>64GB of fixed, local storage </strong>or more</p><p><strong>GPU compatible with DirectX 12</strong></p><p><strong>UEFI motherboard firmware mode </strong>(BIOS not supported)</p><p><strong>TPM v1.2 </strong>or higher</p><p><strong>Secure Boot </strong>enabled</p><p><strong>1366×768 minimum resolution </strong>and a screen-size of <strong>9 inches or larger</strong></p>
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<p>UPDATES</p><p><br></p><p>A new version of the Health Check tool has been released, that will actually tell you what the issues are</p><p><br></p><p>And Microsoft have updated a spec page to confirm v1.2 TPMs will not be supported</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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<p>According to Mary Jo-Foley, Windows 11 will only support devices with a 9" screen or bigger with a minimum resolution of 1366×768</p>
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<p>Yeah, most of the <em>Windows RT </em>tablets were built for the <em>32-bit ARMv7 </em>processors, so you’re out-of-luck.</p><p><br></p><p>Still, <em>Windows 10</em> is supported until October 2025, so you’ve still 4 years, 4 months to go — during that time, maybe try some <em>Linux </em>distros inside a VM and see which you could replace <em>Windows </em>with when the time comes?</p>
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<p>No exact release date, but second-half of this year (scroll-down to the "Get Ready" heading on this page: microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11 )</p><p><br></p><p>I’d imagine the retail prices will be similar to boxed-copies of Windows 10 today, and yes, it’ll be a free-update to any existing Windows 10 device. Not confirmed yet if a Windows 7 or Windows 8 key will still be accepted during the Setup process, but people who have ran the leaked build have said it does appear it will accept both</p>