PC Magazine - USA (2021-12)

Windows 11:

Your Wishlist

YOUR COMMENTS

READER INPUT

I think the biggest sin of W11 is the architecture one.

The chip shortage we are in now is serious, and

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are out the window (pun intended) as the hardware

we would need to replace perfectly useful machines

now is not possible. I see no reason why the TPM

functionality should not be an option as opposed to a

requirement. Anything that strengthens security is

desired, but right now, it is not possible to wholesale

replace computers (much less graphics cards).

Another factor here is “green.” Forcing companies to

junk perfectly good computers, with useful life, to go

to Windows 11 is certainly not green. This needs a

rethink as much as the interface. One wonders about

the marketing decisions at major companies—

are they truly being made in an echo chamber, as

it appears?

—cdrkennon

I have a powerful PC with Xeon E5-2637 (6th

generation) processors. It will become obsolete in

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regardless of abilities, so Microsoft, the chip

manufacturers, and the PC manufacturers can get

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and cars (actually destroying the engines to prevent

operation) and paying the owners $1,000 so that car

manufactures could sell new cars.

—David Sylva

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