Eight ‘Features’ Removed from Windows 11

In the Windows 11 update merry-go-round, there’s a major cull of features familiar in Windows 10. Some are user interface (UI) changes, some are disappearing apps. Here’s eight ‘Features’ removed from Windows 11.

System Requirements for Windows 11

Not even a week after the Windows 11 announcement and Microsoft has backtracked and ‘clarified’ the system requirements for Windows 11. It didn’t help that Redmond released a compatibility checker tool, which it withdrew just days after its release.

Windows 11: Evolution Not Revolution

Who believed Microsoft when it said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows? Exactly. This week it revealed Windows 11: evolution not revolution.

When to Replace Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Defender (previously Windows Defender), is Windows’ bundled antivirus software. It’s supplied free and installed by default; but is it any good and how do you know when to replace Microsoft Defender?

How-to: Windows 10 Optional Features

As if Windows wasn’t fat enough already, there’s a long list of Windows 10 Optional Features available to ‘extend’ Windows functionality. Those speech marks around ‘extend’ are there because some of the ‘optional’ features are downright essential to running other software and services.

A number of these run from ‘essential’ to ‘completely useless’ to ‘under no circumstances.’ At least you have a choice…

IE mode on Edge

Internet Explorer 11 will be retired and out of support in June, 2022. So why do you need IE mode on Edge? The answer is Microsoft’s long tail of compatibility for business customers.