Yet another German government vows to abandon Windows.

[Donut417]

17 minutes ago, StDragon said:

Upgrades don't typically break things badly,

Like I said in my post, from 7 to 10 was painful. I have to go based on my own experiences. The only OS I have not had issues with a upgrade is MacOS.

 

17 minutes ago, StDragon said:

For this, I recommend a clean format and install. That's exactly what I plan on doing too.

Like I stated:

 

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Like do I have to reinstall Windows 10 then upgrade to 11, or can I just upgrade to 11 and my digital key will just work? My key originally was a Windows 7 key and everything online says it will work or it will not work, there's no certainty.

If Microsoft can guarantee I can just do a clean install I would. But when they make me do more work I wont.

[StDragon]

1 hour ago, Donut417 said:

Like do I have to reinstall Windows 10 then upgrade to 11, or can I just upgrade to 11 and my digital key will just work?

If you have a legit activation for Windows 10, then it should carry over to 11. I've never see it otherwise fail.

Thought you do have to link your Windows 10 product activation to your Microsoft account first. So that means if you're logging into Windows 10 with a local account, you'll need to convert that to an online account so the activation syncs to the cloud at https://account.microsoft.com/. Once done, you'll see your computer listed under 'Devices' on the left side menu of the MS account portal.

As an extra precaution to keeping your license, I recommend upgrading Windows 10 to Windows 11 after you've completed the above step first. Then later you can format and reinstall. Once you sign into Windows 11 for the first time with your MS account, activation should carry over.

Detailed info and instructions on how to link Windows activation status to your MS account below.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/activate-windows-c39005d4-95ee-b91e-b399-2820fda32227

[Stahlmann]

I can't wait until the government completely kills interoperability between different government agencies because every branch has its own flavor of Linux and uses different software for menial tasks. And suddenly the tax office can't communicate with Customs anymore because they can't open each other's files. Man, that would be so German.

[Stahlmann]

On 4/11/2024 at 2:15 AM, Donut417 said:

If Microsoft can guarantee I can just do a clean install I would. But when they make me do more work I wont.

If the key worked to upgrade from 10 to 11, then it'll also work when doing a fresh 11 install. I also had this situation. I did a fresh 11 install and used my 7 key, which I also used to get the free upgrade to 10 and then from 10 to 11, and it still worked with 11 in a fresh install.

 

However, that was before the mumbo jumbo about ending free upgrades I read about a few months ago.

[GarlicDeliverySystem]

10 hours ago, Stahlmann said:

I can't wait until the government completely kills interoperability between different government agencies because every branch has its own flavor of Linux and uses different software for menial tasks. And suddenly the tax office can't communicate with Customs anymore because they can't open each other's files. Man, that would be so German.

Bold of you to assume that they currently can. Judging by the stories during the pandemic and some personal experience, the universal file in german bureaucracy is still the paper file, including fax machines etc.

 

However, I would assume that interoperability will be a huge factor in any new software design, right behind Datenschutz and way above usability or user training.

 

[atxcyclist]

On 4/5/2024 at 1:27 PM, Ydfhlx said:

First of all, Windows 11 has very high system requirements. Many people simply can't run it.

 

Windows 10 has about 65-70% market share, compared to 26-28% of Windows 11. They are, cutting support far, far to early. Likely hundreds of millions, if not billions of users will loose support.

It has platform requirements, you could run a 2-core/4-thread Pentium chip on its integrated graphics with Windows 11, as long as it has the security components necessary.

 

Microsoft offloading some security duties to hardware instead of extra software overhead is better. Every machine I’ve directly upgraded to Windows 11 from 10 is noticeably faster to boot and use after the upgrade, even systems with fairly recent Windows 10 installs.

 

[Kisai]

On 4/12/2024 at 4:16 PM, atxcyclist said:

Every machine I’ve directly upgraded to Windows 11 from 10 is noticeably faster to boot and use after the upgrade, even systems with fairly recent Windows 10 installs.

 

 

That's because newer hardware. Period. That's been the case since Windows 3.1 , newer hardware is always faster. A new install has less bloat and less disk fragmentation.

[atxcyclist]

46 minutes ago, Kisai said:

 

That's because newer hardware. Period. That's been the case since Windows 3.1 , newer hardware is always faster. A new install has less bloat and less disk fragmentation.

There wasn’t any hardware upgrades, I’m talking about upgrading an existing system with Windows 10 directly. I even installed Windows 10 on a machine and then upgraded it to Windows 11 two months later; No bloat on there, it’s actually a faster OS. 
 

I understand why people are annoyed their builds from 2016 cannot be upgraded, the hardware security is what it is, but Windows 11 is not a huge resource hog.
 

 

[Stahlmann]

On 4/12/2024 at 10:47 PM, GarlicDeliverySystem said:

Bold of you to assume that they currently can. Judging by the stories during the pandemic and some personal experience, the universal file in german bureaucracy is still the paper file, including fax machines etc.

 

However, I would assume that interoperability will be a huge factor in any new software design, right behind Datenschutz and way above usability or user training.

In retrospect, I agree, it sounds naive. It already doesn't work with most of them using Windows. So the takeaway is: It's only going to get worse.