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PTT resides on the CPU and not the chipset
There is no mention of PTT on Intel’s ARK site for the i5-11600K processor, which is of interest to me. However, it is mentioned for the Z590 chipset as well as your Z490.
My statement about what an Intel spokesperson told me was shown to that person, who approved the wording without change. I wanted to be sure I was reporting accurately.
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6Gb RAM
More RAM will help, too. No matter what Microsoft says, 6GB is a bit skimpy in my book.
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… to make it all work!
Yes, we switched to a Microsoft 365 business plan. 98% of our problems vanished. Full stack. OneNote remains quirky, but more on that to come.
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After the horribly-produced announcement, the lack of date certain, the complete confusion over hardware compatibility, and the pulling of the PC Health Check app, this popup in Windows 10 is not just annoying, it’s insulting.
That popup should not appear on any system that is not compatible with Windows 11. Good luck on Microsoft getting that right.
And that popup should not appear until general availability has arrived. Why pester us about something that is not real?
Microsoft needs to get its house in order on this thing.
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I can see that it is an easy choice to stay within the Microsoft family and adopt OneDrive (and even eventually Teams, etc).
“Easy” only in the sense that that it is better integrated. I have long felt that that only a “full stack” solution can be sufficiently safe and reliable. (That is my personal opinion.)
The operational side of AskWoody ran on a different solution prior to 2021. However, Microsoft Office was still used. To make it work, one of the staffers used a personal 365 account to stitch things together and the transition to new management proved difficult.
Other solutions are on our radar.
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… can you publish a couple of paragraphs that summarize the conclusions of this long and comprehensive discussion?
The three reasons to use OneDrive:
- You want an off-premises copy of your most important digital assets;
- You want access to those assets from more than one device;
- You are working collaboratively.
The operational side of AskWoody uses OneDrive as its repository. We couldn’t work efficiently without it, especially because we are geographically dispersed. We subscribe to Microsoft 365 and get 1TB of OneDrive space; collaborative work in the 5GB space given to all those with a Microsoft Account might be adequate for some but is not enough to accommodate us.
Cons? As Fred is pointing out, there are some dark corners of complexity and weak documentation.
It is always wise to exercise caution when sharing important data and assets with a faceless service. However, cloud services are what has made Microsoft so valuable. That simply means the company cannot afford for any of these services, including OneDrive, to be anything other than trustworthy, secure, and reliable.
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… but they sort of overwhelm other topics posted.
Thanks for visiting the site to read the main blog. We appreciate that.
AskWoody has something of a split personality. And not just two ways — we’ve got the main blog, the extensive forums, and the emailed newsletters. The Plus edition of the newsletter pays the bills; without the generous support of Plus members like you, we couldn’t keep the lights on. That’s the reason we make the presence of new issues of the newsletter prominent on the home page of the site, the blog. And that’s why, this year, we have made those postings slightly more prominent than in previous years.
As you suggest, there is a section in the right column called “Recent blog posts” that lists the last few items from the main blog. The nature of our system does not allow us to list only newsletter articles there. But we have a page for that: Newsletters/Alerts.
Thanks for being a Plus member!
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… but it [Apple] does so more gently, and never has it done it do relatively new hardware.
Apple bricked my old MacMini very quickly. Things just seem gentle because, with complete control over the hardware and software, Apple can release a new version of MacOS along with hardware that has new requirements while retaining backwards compatibility for a time. But eventually Macs hit the wall, too, and with much greater frequency than Microsoft has done.
Microsoft has been the king of backwards compatibility, until now. Or, to be completely accurate, until October 2025.
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UPDATE: Beware third-party utilities claiming to perform the functions Microsoft’s PC Health Check app was supposed to provide. They may be laced with poison. It’s an interesting and surely unintended consequence of Microsoft’s pulling its app.
Thanks to Deanna McElveen for mentioning this to me; she is on the hunt for something safe.
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If you really think several hundred million computers are going to be scrapped just because you and Microsoft say so, you are sadly and badly mistaken.
First, I think Amy is right about our tendency to ask for things and then complain when they arrive. It’s sort of a knee-jerk reaction when a company surprises us. In my article I wrote that I thought Microsoft was making the right decision even though it must have been difficult. Microsoft’s problem right now is that it isn’t explaining itself well.
Second, I don’t think several hundred million computers are going to be scrapped, at least not tomorrow. Windows 10 has three or four years to run before end-of-support. It’s not going to vanish on the day Windows 11 becomes generally available. Should Microsoft have waited until October 2025 before doing this? We’ve been given notice, with ample time to make plans.
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Just a note to you: the link you provided to the features being removed from Windows 10 yielded a 404
Here’s the correct link: Windows 11 Specifications – Microsoft. The link in the online versions of the newsletter are good, but the ones in the email went stale for some people. I’m investigating. I might have made a mistake as well.
My general advice to readers when this happens is just to go online.
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(1) Would MS continue supporting, and for how long, Windows 10 after Windows 11 is finally released for regular home users and Enterprise ones?
October 2025. Microsoft has no choice in that.
(2) When the Win 11 release happens, will it be possible to get extended Win 10 support, as was the case, first with XP and then with 7?
I can’t answer that question, but Microsoft is famous for getting it right on the third try. The first try was adding two free years to XP support. The second try was adding two paid years to 7 support. Third try? My guess is nothing. According to the countdown timer at my personal site, Windows 10 support has 1,569 days left to run as of today. That represents more than ample advance notice for anyone to plan.
I am predicting that Microsoft will not budge this time.
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UPDATE: Microsoft today released a blog post titled Update on Windows 11 minimum system requirements. The PC Health Checker tool has been taken offline and, according to the post, will be restored “this fall.”
The blog post also said that first build of Windows 11 for Insiders on the DEV channel is available today.
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What is the best way to go toward this new OS?
You can expect more from us on these issues.
Oh, wait, I have to buy a new PC first.
You know how stand-up comics always hope for the election of a president most vulnerable to jokes? It’s four years of instant grist for the comedy mill. Windows 11? Same thing for us, albeit with less humor.
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My first question is why MS thinks a TPM should be mandatory for Windows 11 Home.
My gut-level response to this is that Microsoft would just as well see the Home edition vanish. When helping family, friends, and clients, I never recommend the Home edition for anything.
My reasoned response is that one reason for beefing up security at the client computer level is to prevent those clients from becoming threat vectors to cloud services, such as Microsoft 365. Home edition users can sign up for 365 and other such services, too.
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