Windows 11 is finally here — and a little bit ahead of schedule., depending on where you are in the world. The official release date is October 5, and though it’s October 4th where I’m sitting, it’s already the future in other parts of the world. There are actually a few different ways to install the OS, from a straightforward update to some more circuitous methods. Let’s cut to the chase, then....
Windows 11 has a release date, and it’s a fair bit sooner than many of us anticipated. Microsoft todayannouncedthat its new OS would begin to roll out on October 5 — just a few weeks away. On that date, an update for the new OS will begin to roll out to users on fully compatible devices, but it’s also when the first new devices preloaded with Windows 11 will become available in stores....
With Windows 11 dramatically changing the way Windows looks, it’s only natural that Microsoft would radically redesign its emoji. The company’s design team todayannouncedthat it had redesigned over 1,800 emoji, coming later this year. And just as promised, one of those changes includes redesigning the paper clip emoji as Clippy, everyone’s favorite virtual assistant. While the reintroduction of Clippy is a cute easter egg — I expect the paperclip emoji to suddenly become alotmore popular among Microsoft users — the real story is the completely new aesthetic for Microsoft’s emoji....
The announcement of Windows 11was one of Microsoft’s biggest surprises in years. Not because it’s unusual for a company to update its OS, but because this specific company promised Windows 10 would be the “last version of Windows.” The idea was to deliver ‘Windows as a service,’ after all. Instead of major, paid OS updates every few years, we got a variety of free, bite-sized updates every few months. Windows 10 was supposed to be in a state of constant improvement....
MicrosoftannouncedWindows 11 alongside a bazillion new features today, but by far the most surprising of these was the introduction of Android apps to Windows — no thanks to Google, apparently. Yes, you read that right. Android apps will be available right through the Microsoft Store, which will pull Android apps via the Amazon Appstore. (If you’re wondering why Amazon has an app store, it’s for its Fire tablets and streaming devices, which don’t use Google services)....
