Have a feeling in 2025 when 10 is no longer supported, we'll have the "I'll never give up Windows 7" syndrome all over again. Deja' Vu?
I don't, really.
Windows 11 is nothing more than a fork (yes, geeky, I know, but it's accurate) of Windows 10 that is targeted toward modern hardware. The overall look and feel is very substantially the same as what Windows 10 users are already used to. Many are whining now, even before public release, that they're upset that their current hardware, much of which was never officially certified as compatible with Windows 10, will not upgrade to Windows 11.
Personally, I think that Microsoft was insane to take what was supposed to be Windows 10, Version 21H1, and spin off an official new version of Windows from it. But, at the same time, I understand that if they want to be fairly strict about limiting the hardware on which it will run (which they were very lax about with Windows 10) it would have been equally suicidal for them to stop Windows 10 updates on a huge part of the embedded base.
But I don't see Windows 10 to Windows 11 being the sort of tectonic shift that Windows 8 and earlier to Windows 10 were. Heaven knows that anyone who uses Windows 10 now is not likely to indulge in the "Windows is spying on you" nonsense that was one of the biggest (and stupidest, in my opinion) complaints from users of earlier versions of Windows about Windows 10. And it's even funnier that most of what they complained about was retrofitted into Windows 7 and Windows 8 as far as telemetry (the so called "spying").
I'm sure we'll have some who cling to Windows 10 for a time period just because they don't want to give up the machines they know and love. But that's a separate issue than Windows 11 rejection based on the shakiest of premises that characterized the arguments against upgrading to Windows 10.
