Chapter 1

Everything you need to know about Windows 11

Microsoft officially released Windows 11 on October 5, 2021, after an unusually short testing period. It represents the first major upgrade to Windows since Windows 10, which was released more than six years earlier. It’s built on the same core code as its predecessor, and in many important respects it resembles a feature update to Windows 10.

But don’t let the incremental change in version number fool you into thinking this is an insignificant upgrade. Windows 11 introduces some fundamental changes ...

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