So yes, it’s been two years already: Microsoft officially launched Windows 11 on October 5th, 2021 after four months of confusion and drama the likes of which had never surrounded the release of a consumer operating system before. The latest Windows version was offered to Windows 10 users as a free upgrade in a rather controversial manner, in what was clearly an unfinished state, with a number of promised features missing and a number of user interface changes few actually liked. It was, for all intends and purposes, the botched launch of an operating system nobody really asked for — which pretty much sums up what most Windows 10 users still feel about Windows 11.
Two years in, it’s fair to say that Microsoft’s latest effort to remain dominant in the consumer operating systems space has been a failure: Windows 11 has not delivered on many of its ambitious promises yet, it has not offered a meaningful uplift in performance over Windows 10 and it has not made most everyday tasks any easier for most people (some believe that it actually made things worse for Windows veterans). After numerous system updates and fixes, as well as two major system upgrades, Microsoft has delivered a number of quality-of-life improvements and a few of the initially promised features, but there are a lot of loose ends to be tied before Windows 11 gets even close to what the company described in June 2021.