[Fast food text sharing X information translation] Windows 11 confirmed to be under development: what can be seen from the leaked version

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It's time to say goodbye to Windows 10: Windows 11 is on the way. We have experienced the recently leaked version of Windows 11. Here are some trial experiences.

Note: The current version is a leaked version of the pre-release version of Windows 11, so the final version may be improved

Is Windows 11 just a new name for Windows 10X?

Microsoft may just "cut off" the name Windows 10X. We saw the shadow of the new start menu for Windows 10X testing in Windows 11, and noticed that the dynamic tiles disappeared.

For some reason, the start menu button and taskbar fixed icon now appear in the middle of the taskbar. When opening or fixing the application to the taskbar, the start menu button will continue to move to the left. Closing the application or unpinning the taskbar will move the start menu button to the right.

By default, you cannot move the mouse to the lower left corner to open the start menu. This seems to be contrary to Fitt's law-after all, it is easier to move the mouse to the corner and click. Interestingly, as a company that launched Windows 8, Microsoft was also keen to use the hot corners (hot corners, which can define what events are triggered when the mouse moves to a corner) function in Windows 8.

The good news is that you can still choose to move the start button and taskbar icon to the far left. By right-clicking the taskbar and selecting taskbar settings, you can customize the alignment of the taskbar.

More convenient window management

Windows 11 introduced some useful feature adjustments. Now, you can move the mouse to the maximize button in the upper right corner of the window, and then freely choose the screen layout and window position.

In Windows 10, we usually need to drag the window to the left edge, right edge or other corners of the screen, but this adjustment makes the management of the window more convenient. Of course, whether it is Windows 10 or Windows 11, we can still use win+arrow keys to change the layout of the current window.

The weather control became a real control

What if the weather control of Windows 10 does not display the weather on the taskbar, but just a button that opens news and subscribe streams after clicking it?

Microsoft answered this question with a button that appeared on the right side of the taskbar.

In the leaked version, after clicking this button, a pop-up window called windows dashboard will appear on the top of the application or desktop. With the background, it looks more concise.

Have other new features of Windows 10X been introduced?

Unfortunately, there is no indication that Windows 11 will introduce an amazing feature in Windows 10X: running applications in containers for security reasons, so as to provide users with protection from malicious software or vulnerable applications. system.

This container-based technology ensures that the system is read-only, allowing Windows 11 to complete a major update in less than 90 seconds. Unfortunately Windows 11 does not seem to use the technology - although the future may be used, but for now , Windows 11 so-called update may just change a layer of skin.

Windows 11 is also not intended to run on dual-screen devices-when Windows 10X was first released, it was proposed to run on dual-screen devices. After all, a new type of device should use a new UI.

In other words, the most technically complex features in Windows 10X do not seem to appear in Windows 11. On the contrary, the interface design used to test Windows 10X returned to Windows 11.

Is it just an update on the interface?

So is Windows 11 really a big update? maybe not. The Review Geek site believes that Windows 11 is just a lightly changed Windows 10.

This sentence is not unreasonable. For example, the "Settings" page looks like it was pulled directly from Windows 10. If you hope that the control panel will eventually disappear completely and replaced by a separate page for settings, then sorry, you will be disappointed: the control panel is still there.

Although, the icon of the file manager looks better:

Will there be a new app store?

There have been many discussions about whether Microsoft will launch an application store that focuses more on desktop applications. This is what the majority of users are looking forward to. Microsoft should have launched a new application store as early as the launch of win8, instead of spending nearly 10 years to do this.

Unfortunately, in the leaked version, the app store looks no different from Windows 10.

Want a local account? Need to spend money

The last thing did not surprise us: Microsoft has been promoting the Microsoft account to Windows 10 users. Now when installing Windows 10, it will be difficult to create a local account, you must disconnect the Internet first.

In Windows 11, disconnection does not work anymore. Windows 11 Home Edition can no longer create local accounts, you need the more expensive Windows 11 Professional Edition.

Isn't Windows 10 the last version?

I really like a famous quote by Jerry Nixon:

"Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows"

This is what he said before the release of Windows 10. But now, Microsoft has released a new version.

Let's face it: it's a bad idea to think of Windows as a service rather than an operating system.

Windows 10 users seem to be able to update for free. A colleague of mine even used the Windows 7 key to activate Windows 11 (Of course, you can also use the Windows 7 key to activate Windows 10)

stay tuned

However, when will Windows 11 be released? Are there other new features? Has the UI of the settings page been upgraded? There are too many questions that make us curious!

To learn more about Windows 11, you can follow Microsoft's event on July 24.