Updates should be much faster on Windows 11, too. If you don’t move to the new features update within two years, you’ll lose out on security updates.

For Windows 11 Home and Pro, Microsoft is offering 24 months of updates instead of the 18 months available on Windows 10.

You’ll get fewer feature updates, but they’ll have a longer life cycle. We’re not sure why Microsoft is going with the annual route this time around, but it’s presumably to pack more into each update to make them feel more substantial. That’s a shift from Windows 10, which has received two feature updates each year. The interesting news is how Microsoft is handling Windows 11 updates.Įach year, Windows 11 will receive a big features update. The video details various other optimizations, including faster resume from sleep, faster Windows Hello logins, and expanded compression usage for a smaller disk footprint. Microsoft Edge, for example, has Sleeping Tabs that can reduce memory usage by 32% on average, according to Microsoft. It seems that functionality is baked into Windows 11, as well as some of its apps. This upcoming feature on Alder Lake processors assigns tasks to the proper core to speed up the machine. This is something we learned about with the announcement of Intel Thread Director. Someone just used ChatGPT to generate free Windows keys Windows 11 is ditching this almost 20-year-old classic feature Windows 11 is finally going to play nice with your iPhone