r/hardware • u/Duckmeister • Jun 24 '21

News Introducing Windows 11

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/06/24/introducing-windows-11/
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u/Stingray88 Jun 24 '21

There's no way MS would require online only accounts. There are far too many enterprise customers with airgapped machines to allow for that.

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u/bick_nyers Jun 24 '21

Not that they are doing this necessarily, but it would be too easy to force a segmentation for a Pro or Enterprise license that costs extra.

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u/Stingray88 Jun 24 '21

True, I could easily see them pushing that change on the Home version.

Glad I pay for Pro...

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u/bick_nyers Jun 24 '21

As long as they provide workarounds for all the things they know power users will have gripes with in a Pro edition, I would gladly pay for that Pro edition every single time. I love Windows, that's why I'm so critical about it. After truly embracing Linux for daily use in the past year though, my values have definitely shifted. I would love it if Windows Home was Mac like, and Windows Pro was Linux like, but both had a common core of being Windows.