Solved If one has Windows 10, will Microsoft offer an upgrade to Windows 11 automatically?

SamRick · Jul 31, 2021

I have a desktop PC running Windows 10 Pro.

Will Microsoft offer an upgrade to Windows 11 automatically, or does it involve spending money?

barman58 · Jul 31, 2021

Microsoft confirmed in the original announcement Video "Event" that the upgrade would be free when released, though you can decide not to upgrade - so it will not just upgrade until you agree

Bree · Jul 31, 2021

SamRick said:
Will Microsoft offer an upgrade to Windows 11 automatically, or does it involve spending money?

Welcome to Eleven Forum.

The upgrade to Windows 11 will be free, but it will only be offered to you if your PC meets all the minimum requirements, Secure boot, TPM 2.0 and a supported processor (for Intel that means 8th gen or newer).

Windows processor requirements Windows 11 supported Intel processors

This specification details the Intel processors that can be used with Windows 11 customer systems that include Windows products, including custom images.

docs.microsoft.com

Your Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G4400 was launched in 2015 and is not on the supported list so yes, you may have to spend money - just not on what you expected.

None of my machines are supported for W11, so I've just bought another that is, with the intention of restoring a system image of my main machine's W10 and installed apps to it so that it will be offered W11 when it is released to the public.

SamRick · Jul 31, 2021

There is another point that confuses me. When Windows 10 was 'conceived', MS declared that this would be the last OS it would offer. At least that's what I believe I read.

If that was true, why develop Windows 11, for only certain (presumably) high-powered system combinations?

Is this the first step towards the eventual deprecatation of Windows 10? If so, that's guaranteed to dismay and anger millions of ordinary W10 users, including me, who were led to believe that W10 would go on "forever", with a continual stream of updates to keep up with technological advances.

BunnyJ · Jul 31, 2021

SamRick said:
There is another point that confuses me. When Windows 10 was 'conceived', MS declared that this would be the last OS it would offer. At least that's what I believe I read.

If that was true, why develop Windows 11, for only certain (presumably) high-powered system combinations?

Is this the first step towards the eventual deprecatation of Windows 10? If so, that's guaranteed to dismay and anger millions of ordinary W10 users, including me, who were led to believe that W10 would go on "forever", with a continual stream of updates to keep up with technological advances.

Again.,, 10 will be around for at least 4 more years and you can use a run of the mill PC with 11. It's not designed for high powered rigs.

Bree · Jul 31, 2021

SamRick said:
When Windows 10 was 'conceived', MS declared that this would be the last OS it would offer.

No, not an official MS statement. Jerry Nixon made an off-the-cuff remark at the Ignite conference in 2015, that's all.

According to the transcript of the session, Nixon’s comment was more of a throwaway line, one that he literally referred to as a segue...

. ...But give Nixon a break, too: He made an enthusiastic, throwaway comment that ended up being understood as company policy.

Why is there a Windows 11 if Windows 10 is the last Windows?

If Windows 10 was supposed to be the last version of Windows, why is there a Windows 11? Well, because Windows 10 was never officially the last version of Windows.

www.pcworld.com

NavyLCDR · Jul 31, 2021

barman58 said:
Microsoft confirmed in the original announcement Video "Event" that the upgrade would be free when released, though you can decide not to upgrade - so it will not just upgrade until you agree

Just like the upgrade from Windows 7 or 8 was to Windows 10. There's no reason to think the upgrade to Windows 11 will be any different. I predict there will be a large number of users who claim Windows 11 was forced on them - though with the hardware restrictions it won't be as many as claimed Windows 10 was forced on them.