With only one week before your official announcement, leaks and questions about Microsoft’s operating system version have begun to flood the Internet. In fact, a construction with Windows 11 filtered has already revealed what has changed and, perhaps the most important thing, which has remained the same. Some users and customers will probably wonder if they can upgrade to the new brilliant windows without paying a penny. It turns out that they could be able to do exactly that, as long as they do not use Windows 8.
Microsoft has been quite aggressive to press Windows 10 a few years ago, resulting in both comical and embarrassing situations. Part of your strategy was to make Windows 10 be available as a free update to users from previous versions of Windows at least for one year more or less. It seems that you will use the same strategy for Windows 11 with a small warning.
XDA discovered the Windows 11 product configuration keys for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users. This practically means that these versions will be able to take advantage of a free update to Windows 11 once the doors are opened. Interestingly, Windows 8 is not on that list, which implies that users should update to Windows 8.1 first before upgrading to Windows 11.
Naturally, the update will also be free for Windows 10 users, especially because Windows 11 does not seem an update anyway. Much of the filtered changes so far seem to rotate around appearances, with the start menu and the taskbar is the greatest change of behavior. It will not be surprising if Windows 11 will even have a switch to return to how Windows 10 was seen and behaved.
Windows 11 is looking for what Windows 10X would have been but without the underlying architectural changes. It would have easily passed for another version of Windows 10 Feature Feature, and we will have to wait for the Formal Microsoft announcement to see why it was decided in a version number number.
