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New PC operating system: Microsoft releases pre

2021-06-30T10:44:15.831Z


The new Windows can be installed from today. With the release of the trial version, Microsoft also lowered the system requirements. But using the operating system is not without risk.


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Installation via the update function of Windows 10

Photo: Matthias Kremp / DER SPIEGEL

If you are an "insider", you may have already noticed: Microsoft made the first test version of Windows 11 available on Tuesday night.

And users who have registered for Microsoft's Windows Insider Program and have selected the “Dev Channel” there (you can find out how to do this here) will first be offered for download.

The US group presented the new operating system for PCs, notebooks and tablet computers last Thursday as the successor to Windows 10.

The software is "the first version of a new era of Windows," said Microsoft boss Satya Nadella at the end of the show.

Outstanding innovations include - in addition to a fundamental modernization of the look with rounded window corners and a new start menu - functions that are intended to simplify the use of multiple monitors and multitasking.

With the help of an “Intel Bridge Technology”, Android apps are to work on PCs for the first time.

In addition, the chat software teams are integrated directly into the operating system so that they can be started from any software.

Both the Teams integration and Android compatibility are missing in the pre-release version.

They should only be submitted with a later version.

This practice was previously announced and is not uncommon for a new operating system.

Change of requirements

At the start of the test phase, Microsoft lowered the hardware requirements.

The minimum requirements that had been set for Windows 11 had caused some criticism.

The original requirement for a so-called TPM 2.0 module and certain generations of processors excluded many older computers.

In a blog entry from June 28th, Microsoft explained the reasons for the high hardware requirements, but at the same time lowered them for the preview version.

The preliminary software can now also be installed on computers without TMP 2.0 and with older processors - at least in theory.

Our attempts to install the software on a seven-year-old notebook have so far failed.

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Or maybe it's a good thing.

Because as exciting as it may be for interested users to try out a new operating system, it is also dangerous.

Prerelease versions such as Windows 11 are unfinished products that are neither optimized for performance nor for efficiency and almost always contain errors that can at least potentially lead to data loss.

You shouldn't install something like this on a computer that you use every day.

That is also the reason why Microsoft has now released the first preliminary version: You need time to free the software from errors and to optimize it before it is published.

And that takes months.

The company has not officially announced a date, but according to current rumors, October 20th will be scheduled for the introduction of Windows 11.

So there is plenty of time to improve the software. And just as much time to test these improved interim versions.

Source: spiegel

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