October the 5th Will it be ready?

LeLibran · Sep 5, 2021

BunnyJ said:
Ok.. will it be ready? It's going to be as ready as any of the previous OS's MS has released.

Thanks for that, I'm blaming you for my sudden flashbacks to Win 95, Millennium Edition and Vista

barman58 · Sep 5, 2021

Poor Vista, I ran it on it's proper hardware spec and it blew the awful XP [GUI by by disney], into the weeds :wink:

BunnyJ · Sep 5, 2021

I had good success with Vista. Yes,, driver support was dodgy but the OS worked.

jvickers · Sep 5, 2021

BunnyJ said:
I had good success with Vista. Yes,, driver support was dodgy but the OS worked.

Yeah. I can't even remember Vista. My memory sucks! I remember Windows 3.1 for some odd reason. Probably because it was so novel for PCs at the time.

BunnyJ · Sep 5, 2021

jvickers said:
Yeah. I can't even remember Vista. My memory sucks! I remember Windows 3.1 for some odd reason. Probably because it was so novel for PCs at the time.

I recall IBM OS2 more than Windows 3.1, I had to use OS2 at work. Vista was ok,.. ish,, but it was short lived.

The-Hive · Sep 5, 2021

BunnyJ said:
Ok.. will it be ready? It's going to be as ready as any of the previous OS's MS has released.

If it's like the very early versions, it will be half cocked and full of bugs. I don't know how win 10 was as i never got into that until quite late. does that means they will release lots of updates and fixes and when it is working at it's best Win12 will come along :lmao:

bill@7 · Sep 5, 2021

well i for one think window 11 is rubbish its very slow to boot up on the lastest build, a few things like some of my software wont run or it crashes,

z3r010 · Sep 5, 2021

bill@7 said:
its very slow to boot up on the lastest build

Boots in seconds for me, are you sure it's not your hardware causing the bottleneck?

hsehestedt · Sep 5, 2021

bill@7 said:
well i for one think window 11 is rubbish its very slow to boot up on the lastest build, a few things like some of my software wont run or it crashes,

That's a shame. Are you running it on properly spec'ed hardware?

For me, 11 is running like a scalded dog. Very smooth and fast.

The-Hive · Sep 5, 2021

bill@7 said:
well i for one think window 11 is rubbish its very slow to boot up on the lastest build, a few things like some of my software wont run or it crashes,

Mine is mega quick to boot, everything works the same except my 3rd party app for the taskbar clock. I do have an ssd with 16gb of ram which I upgraded from 8. It was bought just for win 11, set up how I wanted it on win 10 then onto the dev channel. I hope yours speeds up with future releases

The-Hive · Sep 5, 2021

BunnyJ said:
I recall IBM OS2 more than Windows 3.1, I had to use OS2 at work. Vista was ok,.. ish,, but it was short lived.

my first computer was an Amstrad 6128. wow, it had a 3" disk drive and a cassette to load programs. then along came Windows 3 :lmao:

BunnyJ · Sep 5, 2021

bill@7 said:
well i for one think window 11 is rubbish its very slow to boot up on the lastest build, a few things like some of my software wont run or it crashes,

Well.. you don't have to use it if that's how feel. You can still use 10 for about 4 more years.

BunnyJ · Sep 5, 2021

The-Hive said:
my first computer was an Amstrad 6128. wow, it had a 3" disk drive and a cassette to load programs. then along came Windows 3

We had a mix of OS's,, some were OS2 and others were Windows.. 3.11 I think. My first personal PC was a Gateway 2000 and I had Windows 95 on that one.

The-Hive · Sep 5, 2021

BunnyJ said:
We had a mix of OS's,, some were OS2 and others were Windows.. 3.11 I think. My first personal PC was a Gateway 2000 and I had Windows 95 on that one.

I can't remember mine for sure I think it was an Opus an antique now :)

BunnyJ · Sep 5, 2021

The-Hive said:
I can't remember mine for sure I think it was an Opus an antique now :)

I remember mine because it had cow spots on the box. At work, The Travelers Ins, we were and IBM shop so we had IBM PC's.

MilesAhead · Sep 7, 2021

Haydon said:
Gee, I think your only options are voodoo priest or preloaded W11.

Probably both will be required.

Haydon · Sep 7, 2021

MilesAhead said:
Probably both will be required.

PerpetualCycle · Sep 8, 2021

BunnyJ said:
We had a mix of OS's,, some were OS2 and others were Windows.. 3.11 I think. My first personal PC was a Gateway 2000 and I had Windows 95 on that one.

I think mine was a Packard Bell (crap), soon replaced by a Gateway w/95 and a pentium. Those were pretty pricey back then.

OnT: It won't be ready, but it doesn't matter.

jvickers · Sep 8, 2021

bill@7 said:
well i for one think window 11 is rubbish its very slow to boot up on the lastest build, a few things like some of my software wont run or it crashes,

I've not timed my boot speed, but it's faster than Windows 10. I've had no issues with software crashing. Sorry to see you're having these issues.

Ernimus Prime · Sep 8, 2021

So, will Windows 10 users be able to upgrade on Oct 5th or will we have to wait till later on I'm 2022 to upgrade. I am hoping that. MCT will be available for creating a Windows 11 USB installation drive, since I plan on a fresh install anyways.