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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah windows 11 had no reason to come out when it did. It'd make more sense to come out now or next year. I think they did it to try to capitalize on all the people buying new PCs when working from home during COVID

[โ€“] sylver_dragon 2 points 6 months ago

Windows 10 released in 2015. Windows 11 released in 2021. It's pretty much in line with other release cycles for Windows Desktop OS releases.

  • XP -> Vista - was about 6 years
  • Vista -> 7 - Was about 2 (But everyone sane basically skipped Vista)
  • 7-> 8 - Was 3 years, with a fourth year to get to 8.1.
  • 8 -> 10 - Was about 3 years.

If you only look at the releases which mattered, XP -> 7 was 8 years and 7 -> 10 was 6. So, it seems like Microsoft kinda accepted reality this time around and we didn't get some sort of asinine Windows Mojave shenanigans trying to polish a turd. That said, I'm still running 10 on my main system and my experiences with 11 are making me consider an upgrade path to Linux when Win10 goes EoL.