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During a livestream that aired today, Microsoft officially unveiled its next OS: Windows 11 and announced that Windows 10 users will get access to Windows 11 as a free upgrade, similar to how Windows 7 and 8 users were upgraded to Windows 10 for free.

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Microsoft also said that Windows 11 will be "the best Windows ever for gaming". To back that claim up, the tech giant announced a slate of gaming-related enhancements. One of these is Auto HDR which will make games look better as it adds High Dynamic Range (HDR) enhancements to titles built on DirectX 11 or higher that previously only leveraged Standard Dynamic Range (SDR). This tech was in fact introduced Xbox Series X|S consoles.

Another enhancement will come to loading speed through the new DirectStorage technology. This was part of the Xbox Velocity Architecture featured in the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S and Windows 11 PCs will load new games faster with a high performance NVMe SSD and the proper drivers.

As a final gaming-related feature, the Xbox app will be built into Windows 11 to provide easier access to Game Pass. Cloud gaming will also be directly added into the Xbox app on PC.

Another interesting announcement during the event, albeit not directly related to gaming, is that Android apps will apparently run natively on Windows 11. The apps will be downloadable from Amazon’s Appstore, which will itself be accessible via the new Windows store.

For more details about the gaming-related announcements, head to the official Xbox blog post in the source link below.

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[tpax]

You are the product.

 

[K3Nv2]

We aren't already running it tho.

 

[CeeDee]

Neat! But if it's free, why not just make it a Windows 10 upgrade?

 

[Prans]

Neat! But if it's free, why not just make it a Windows 10 upgrade?

probably because new PCs will come preloaded with it and this will take away the need to update again

 

[JuanMena]

EW NO!
I can only hope dissapointment thanks to Windows 10.

 

[Deleted member 512337]

Michaelsoft Binbows

 

[ihaveahax]

The TPM 2.0 requirement is likely going to shut out a lot of PCs that don't have it at all, or don't have it enabled by default. The PC I have from 2014 doesn't support it, therefore it is stuck to Windows 10. It can be bypassed for now but who knows if that will still be possible in the future?

Also there are some other "interesting" changes such as removing the possibility of moving the taskbar from the bottom. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications

 

[SaulFabre]

Not interested in it, I will keep with Windows 10

 

[tech3475]

Neat! But if it's free, why not just make it a Windows 10 upgrade?

The UI changes alone will probably be a reason, especially from a corporate perspective in terms of support and licensing costs.

Edit:

Plus the newer system requirements compared to w10.

 

[Jiehfeng]

Cool, I grew to like Windows 10 a lot since it released, hopefully I'll dig this one too. I'll probably wait a little bit to avoid any release issues and get a more stable release update later.

 

[DKB]

I do miss Windows 7 with all of my heart. But, I got so used to 10. I might adjust a lot faster though this time.

 

[Deleted member 534570]

Is it going to lock me out all unlicensed "cracked" products like Windows 10?

 

[pustal]

Neat! But if it's free, why not just make it a Windows 10 upgrade?

Rumor has it that Windows 11 is made out of Windows 10X and not Windows 10. Windows 10X was "made from the ground up" according to Microsoft (I believe many things they just reused from Windows 10 though) and it is not an upgrade from Windows 10.

 

[Chris_Dai_Gyakuten_Saiban]

This sounds like it may be good, but for the time being I will just wait until it is stable and see if it is worth the update. For now Windows 10 does what I need it to do.

 

[Seliph]

Don't need this. I'll be sticking to Windows 98 for gaming, thank you very much!

 

[Beerus]

the built in android player is actually blessed makes doing macros for my games easier

 

[MohammedQ8]

The announcer has the saddest eyes I have ever see. It looked like he almost cry.

 

[ZeroFX]

cool that the trailer shows everything you can already do, like "multitasking".

 

[Chris_Dai_Gyakuten_Saiban]

cool that the trailer shows everything you can already do, like "multitasking".

And move the cursor around and call people.