Why windows 11 is still unnecessary?

Have my views since writing that Windows 11 felt unneeded six months ago changed? Basically no, and here is why even though I tested Windows 11 ahead of time with the Windows Insider program. I was interested in taking another look because my opinion of Windows 11 had changed. Although it still tries to stay up with Windows 10, it has in certain instances. Windows 11's biggest fault is that it still feels less enjoyable and useful. As an illustration, in the Windows 10 settings menu, if you browse to Personalization Themes, you'll see a large, emotive icon listing all of your installed themes. I now enjoy the Windows 11 settings menu, but the themes feel more generic and less like an expression of your personality.

how to personalize your windows 10 pc

but you can't really do that for windows 11. Because one of the things to personalize  in windows 10 is the start menu and in windows 11 you still can't really do anything with it  in windows 11 the start menu is just a sea of icons with no real rhyme or reason you can move  them around and well that's about it sure we know changes are coming microsoft has scheduled start  folders for release during the fall.But let's face it they've already botched those too  one of the key visual elements of windows 10 is the ability to visually weight specific  apps and folders by resizing them you can group windows 11 apps together together in a folder  but that makes the icon smaller i mean how does this make sense at a company where accessibility  has been a priority just let us resize everything icons folders the start menu itself i mean  it might end up being ugly but it's r ugly look i'll be honest ii don't even use the start menu  i simply hit the windows key type the name of the app and then launch it or i just use the taskbar  icon itself speaking of the taskbar you still can't move it you can resize it you can't drag  files onto taskbar shortcuts and launch them look i have no problem with the aesthetic if microsoft  wants to move from windows 8's fisher-price tiles all the way to a clean orderly aesthetic  with icons centered on the taskbar that's fine i mean i honestly kind of like it but microsoft edge  allows you to vertically group tabs along the left or right edge of the screen so why can't windows  in windows 11 microsoft added widgets teams chat replaced the search bar with a search icon  and essentially got rid of cortanai'll be honest to me all of these are almost  worthless i mean as a journalist i should use widgets and it's news and information i don't  but i've set my edge browser to informative where i still get a full page of news stories every  time i open a new tab the weather icon i mean come on it's always sunny in california right  and i turned off teamschat ages ago it's just unnecessary in a world full of the  real teams and zoom and google meet and i simply search via browser or just tapping the windows  key as for cortana well yeah i liked her but now i have a phone or a smart speaker to replace her  i've generally come around on the action center that's the cluster of shortcuts to  different features down in the lower right hand corner of your screen windows 10 does provide  more detail if you're listening to a bluetooth speaker for example it'll tell you but

windows  11's organization is just better

thankfully now the clock appears on all of your displays but  the calendar the calendar still doesn't really do anything it's just a desk calendar and it  wastes space now let's talk about the windows shell in windows 11 if you right click a file you  end up with this mess of choices with new icons for cut paste and rename which fortunately i've  learned but then there's this second overflow show more options menu for resizing a photo and whatnot  i mean why does this exist why isn't there a single unified menu for all of this file  explorer i guess is his own problem that what a file is and where it lives is a little different  in a world of teams and google workspace but microsoft at least seems to be recognizing this  other thoughts snap view it's a subset of the fancy zones utility but it works wonderfully  i'd also encourage you to tap the windows key plus h and try out windows dictation  

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it's simple it's effective and you can just do it for a few seconds at a time if you want as far as  the browser is concerned windows 11 now allows you to designate a specific browser as your default  with a single click it didn't before that's a step forward but it's still kind of ridiculous  that you have to designate a specific browser for opening pdf files for example microsoft revamped  the look and feel of the microsoft store app on both windows 10 and 11 and it's far better  organized and more useful as a result microsoft also updated some of its native windows apps  it jumbled up paint a tool everyone has used so that an entire generation had to relearn it  microsoft also reworked photos releasing it with a buggy thumbnails feature though it later fixed it  but photos cut out my favorite feature spot fix and left the useful magic select tool buried  inside paint 3d a tool that no one uses honestly the strongest argument from windows 11 comes from  the pc makers themselves which have made windows 11 synonymous with new pcs and especially intel's  all their lake chip and its thread director tool otherwise it's probably fair to say that neither  two under the hood selling points auto hdr or dynamic refresh rate have made much of an impact  drr ups the refresh rate of certain tablets for improved inking and auto hdr adds hdr on  older games without specific support but in our testing auto hdr didn't actually do allthat much  now one selling point could be direct storage and the one game we've seen demoed for spoken  game load times were cut to under two seconds that's big now microsoft has told us

About  upcoming features dragging and dropping files 

onto taskbar apps these start menu folders we  mentioned before live captions and more but they're not here yet well i mean even if they  were the sense is that microsoft is spending as much time playing catch-up with windows 10  as it is in launching new features for windows 11. this is the way the system is supposed to work  microsoft introduces new features windows complain or cheer and microsoft responds but you can't  get away from it even after six months there just aren't many good reasons to upgrade to windows 11.