Following Windows 11's official announcement back in June, Microsoft has confirmed today that the operating system will be available on October 5, being described as "the best Windows ever for gaming".
The company seems to be really leaning into this aspect of the marketing as well, highlighting the likes of Windows 11's "superior graphics with Auto HDR", "faster load times with DirectStorage" and Xbox Game Pass / xCloud integration.
"Windows 11 delivers the best Windows ever for gaming and unlocks the full potential of your system’s hardware with technology like DirectX12 Ultimate, DirectStorage and Auto HDR. With Xbox Game Pass for PC or Ultimate you get access to over 100 high-quality PC games to play on Windows 11 for one low monthly price."
Auto HDR, which automatically adds High Dynamic Range (HDR) enhancements to games built on DirectX 11 or higher (if required), will be included by default with Windows 11, while DirectStorage will be exclusive to Windows 11 on PC, allowing high performance NVMe SSDs to load games faster, ensuring you can "experience incredibly detailed game worlds rendered at lightning speeds, without long load times."
The best bit? Windows 11 will be available through a free upgrade on eligible Windows 10 PCs, and it'll also start being bundled with new PCs from this October. For more details on WIndows 11, head over to Microsoft's official website.
Will you be playing some Xbox Game Pass for PC games on Windows 11 this October? Let us know below.
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They same the same about every windows version
free upgrade from windows 10 but not if you havent got secure boot ?!?
@trev666 can get around the secure boot & tpm 2.0 requirements my pc doesn't have either & I've installed Windows 11 on it
@Royalblues they could do what epic games store does & give out a free game every month
I'm using Windows 11 on my desktop right now but the hardware requirements are BS. My laptop's Ryzen 2500U allegedly can't run it, nor can many PC. If your OS can't run on modern hardware, it isn't good enough.
Yeah I love how the "free upgrade to Win11" seems to only actually work on PCs sold in the past year or so. That's kind of a disaster upgrade. This feels like it's time for the Vista/8 part of the cycle and we can comfortably skip 11 and wait for 12.
honestly whats wrong with windows 10 why did Microsoft bother making windows 11?
@trev666 Remember when Windows 10 was the "last Windows" and would continue like a service? I really don't get why there's an 11 at all, nor why it has such extreme system requirements it won't even run on a system built before 2020. It's a thing nobody asked for, nobody expected, and they haven't actually given an explanation why it exists, it just appeared one day in an email.
My assumption is it's MS back up to it's old wintel tricks, generating a new windows with a "new PCs only" requirement to work in tandem with the PC industry to sell more hardware.
I expect they wanted windows 11 its because it runs android apps and after their failure in phones they still want in on that market.
every other windows is rubbish and nice to see windows 11 keeps the streak alive
@Xiovanni Whether start tiles is the "best" feature or not is a very subjective matter. I for one didn't really think it was a feature that proved very useful and I much prefer the new start menu in Windows 11, but of course others will think otherwise. But if the onscreen keyboard is so horrible and the new icons on the start menu are too small on touch screens (I don't have any touch-enabled Windows device, so haven't tested that myself), that is of course a problem, and I hope you have reported it at the feedback hub. I thought their idea was that the new interface should be more touch friendly than previous iterations (and at least not worse) and then they really need to be aware if they are failing at that.
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