Reply to post: Re: Nothing much against Win11 but can't see the point!

Re: Nothing much against Win11 but can't see the point!

That may be true if you're trying to persuade someone to part with their hard-earned in exchange for the update. But that's not what's happening now, nor was it what happened with W10 before. When OS upgrades are being given away to all and sundry, IMO there's more of an incentive NOT to mess around with what users already know from their existing systems and simply to focus on making as much of the upgrade as seamless and transparent to the user as possible.

Reassure them that, post-upgrade, their system will still look and feel as close to how it does right now, and chances are people will just let the upgrade happen. Tell them that, as part of the upgrade process, there'll be a list as long as your arm of changes in the UI which, oh, by they way, you'll also then have far less ability to customise back into something that looks and feels more preferable to you, plus as a Brucie Bonus we'll also throw in a shit-ton of telemetry, advertising and so on, just for shits and giggles because we can, and quelle surprise, uptake of the free upgrade wasn't nearly quite as impressive as MS hoped for.

Same goes for games - yes, you might want to focus on throwing all the latest rendering tricks into your latest release to persuade people to spend money on it, but if you're trying to persuade them just to install the latest update to a game they already own, not so much. Mind you, given the growing number of new games being released that are deliberately designed to look and feel like something from the 8/16 bit eras, I actually wouldn't mind one bit if MS took this approach with Windows updates and offered us a retro UI theme with the next feature release...