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+1 for Dave’s comment. Even my local Tesco have a three week back order on tonic water!
Bojo is lucky that he can blame Covid even though Brexit and an HGV driver shortage is the cause.
Dave, I think if your customers have TPM and Secure Boot enabled then they already have 80% of the security improvements offered by Windows 11. Azure attestation and secure Cloud aspects are very much Corporate things as is Windows Hello, and are aspects I’m sure you are handling in other ways for your clients.
However the ‘bling’ of Win 11 is nice, and the GPU/DX aspects could possibly make it a winner for gamers (??).
October 5th is the official release date, and they will soon be releasing a compatibility tool called the ‘PC Health Check’. This is already available on the Insiders channel. This software goes through the checklists on this link, and tells you which of the items causes a failure (if this is the case).
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/windows-11#pchealthcheck
Just to go back on your Win11 fears, M$ have now made it easier to run Win11 on older kit:
If it is ‘just’ faster then a Ram Drive cannot be beaten once you have loaded the required software onto the Ram.
if it interests you take a look a SoftPerfect RamDisk
John, if it is just Win11 that excites you, then you should read this ElReg article as it will at least dampen your enthusiasm.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/26/windows_11_user_feedback/
As you will see, most of the complaints are with respect to the Start menu. Tbh I do not care as long as Stardock Fences still works! So far at least it does!
John, it may help you if you write out your current usage and what irritates you so much about it. Sometimes things can be cured by simple things like a ram upgrade etc. A small pre-investment now in (say) a future-proof graphics card may buy you the time for the Win11 market to sort itself out.
If you just want the improved bling and sounds of Windows 11, then it may pay you to wait until Windows 11 is officially released. My bet is that the low cost box shifters will put together a minimalist spec that will run the OS acceptably, if not at blazing speeds. I’d also bet that AMD will have lower cost Ryzens that are Win11 compatible and beat the Intel offerings at lower cost.
Imo, ‘Events’ are the triggers that launch the data-driven elements database lookups etc in the modern Windows OS.
Although the complexity,power and initiating options have changed they are not too different overall from the old IRQs and Windows Registers. database
Where I feel really out of date is in the Security database, as that has become layered beyond my simple omprehension. For example when I shutdown Windows as an Admin (and only user) and it complains that others may be working on the machine!
As you know Dave, the real work comes when some System Auditor wonk now comes along and says
‘OK. well done. You protected everything when it became common knowledge that Razer mice were a security issue. Now prove to me that no-one has used this security hole in the last five years. It also seems to my all-powerful twenty-twenty hindsight that this may be a fundamental problem with all unapproved plug-n-play equipment. Prove to me that no-one has plugged in any unauthorised plug-n-play kit in the last seven years!’
Of course they then escalate the amount of work when it proves impossible to churn out such answers for the time before the appropriate software/hardware was installed.
As most of these Auditors previously had some Sys Admin’s job, but failed the Interpersonal skills bit, I’ll swear that they deliberately choose questions that give you the most work!
If you add ‘Events’ to your definitions they would be pretty accurate.
The poor old (5th Gen minus any capabilities) Flying Turkey is going to be outmatched by the Japanese 6th gen fighter (true 5th gen plus associated drone squadron). Personally I think they would be better off by dropping the expensive manned aircraft bit.
(Sorry wrong thread = meant to put this on the Flying Turkey thread)
If interested there is now an iso image:
Official Windows 11 ISO image now available for download from Microsoft
I actually quite like the visual aspects of Windows 11, and it has some useful ‘usability’ aspects. However I think I’ll wait a bit before using it on my main rig.
Make hay while the sun shines! It looks as though the need for periodic vaccination, social distancing measures is not going to go away for a bit.:(
The Lancet reports that a ‘breakthrough’ variant of the Delta strain has been identified in Vietnam. Breakthrough is defined as a virus variant that slips past the defences put up by vaccines, and in this case was identified in people who had received two jabs of Oxford AstraZeneca a couple of months before infection.
The good news is that all the infected people recovered from infection.It also appears that those infected did not respond as well to their jabs as other hospital staff who did not catch the variant. Maybe this ‘breakthrough’ is just the typical less than perfect protection that the Oxford jab confers. We can but hope!
I suspect that we are going to hear a lot more about this when the main media catches up.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733
Oh – sounds like a bug with the M$ hypervisor. I can get full screen Win11 using the VMware hypervisor.
Sometimes these issues are in the settings for the guest e.g. max GPU ram, or resolution.
The W11 restricted resolution is a typical aspect of most hypervisors as they usually do not have a hardware pass-through for the graphics card. My VMWare Workstation 15 will only do ‘half 4K’, I would have to spend a hundred pounds and upgrade to VMWare 16 to get full 4K resolution or use the somewhat restricted freeware version. Methinks I’ll wait for full Win11 support.
You can usually run the VM in non-windowed full screen mode but of course that does not increase the pixel count.
What I DID do was to splurge on RAM , and purchased SoftPerfect Ram Disk software. A VM run in this really smokes!
Dave, the reason I mentioned simple Storage Spaces was that it allows you to make fairly substantial savings (around 15-20% depending on size) in NVM costs albeit with a slightly increased risk. Speed did not really enter into the equation, as I could always move to a mirrored setup if I really needed more speed.
Just a small edit I’d make to the blog, imo Simple Storage spaces is equivalent to JBOD
My new rig has two 1TB NVMe drives which I set the up as storage space drives. It was a lot cheaper to use two smaller drives rather than pay the premium for a 2TB drive. I toyed with the idea of blasting through any VM I/O blocks by setting the drives up as mirrored storage, but in the end went with simple storage space.
If anyone is unfamiliar with M$ Storage Space (Storage Space ~ software RAID), this blog is a good primer:
https://www.michaelstechtips.com/windows-storage-spaces-performance-simple-vs-mirrored-vs-parity/
Only thing I could think of is that a recent driver update has gone pear-shaped – maybe a full shutdown/restart would help.
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