Microsoft unveils Windows 11- The New Indian Express

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Tech large Microsoft on Thursday unveiled the Home windows 11 working system, sporting a simplified design and cleaner look, which will likely be out there out there in the direction of the tip of the yr.

The most recent model may even see Microsoft bringing Android apps to Home windows for the primary time.

Microsoft’s Home windows working system has powered computer systems around the globe for years.

Home windows 11 is the primary main rehaul since Home windows 10 was launched in 2015.

Through the years, Home windows has been dealing with sturdy competitors from Apple and Google as smartphones and different sensible units gained recognition.

“Right now marks a serious milestone within the historical past of Home windows. It is the start of a brand new era. I am excited by what we have proven you as we speak, and the way we’re reimagining the whole lot from the working system itself to the browser to the Retailer and the Feed.”

“With Home windows 11, we now have a renewed sense of Home windows’ position on the earth,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated in a digital occasion.

He added that the corporate is introducing new retailer commerce fashions and insurance policies and creating new alternatives for native publishers and supporting extra purposes with Android apps.

“That is the primary model of a brand new period of Home windows. We’re constructing for the subsequent decade and past,” he stated.

Microsoft has modernised the design and consumer expertise in Home windows 11, from a brand new Begin button and taskbar to every sound, font and icon.

New Snap Layouts, Snap Teams, and Desktops in Home windows 11 permit for simpler multitasking and organisation, whereas Groups integration immediately into the Taskbar will assist customers to attach with others in a simple method.

Home windows 11 delivers the perfect PC gaming experiences but, providing Auto HDR, Direct Storage, and entry to the Xbox app, it stated.

It additionally has Widgets, a brand new personalised feed powered by synthetic intelligence and best-in-class browser efficiency from Microsoft Edge.

The brand new Microsoft Retailer will create a extra open ecosystem for builders and creators, in addition to a sooner, safer expertise for IT professionals, it stated.

Additionally, individuals will be capable to uncover Android apps within the Microsoft Retailer and obtain them by the Amazon Appstore beginning later this yr.

In a blogpost, Microsoft stated Home windows 11 will likely be out there by a free improve for eligible Home windows 10 PCs and on new PCs “starting this vacation” (finish of the yr).

The free improve will start to roll out to eligible Home windows 10 PCs this vacation season and persevering with into 2022.

Microsoft stated it has been working intently with its {hardware} and silicon companions for seamless integration throughout software program and {hardware} since day considered one of creating Home windows 11.

It added that it has labored with AMD, Intel and Qualcomm to carry collectively “the perfect of Home windows 11 with the most important {hardware} ecosystem on the earth”.

“And with Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Floor and others, we have labored to make sure most PCs you should buy as we speak will likely be prepared for Home windows 11 — throughout a wide range of type components and value factors,” it added.