{"id":22222,"date":"2021-10-03T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=22222"},"modified":"2021-10-03T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T14:00:23","slug":"will-microsoft-force-you-to-upgrade-to-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/will-microsoft-force-you-to-upgrade-to-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Microsoft Force You to Upgrade to Windows 11?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Will Microsoft Force You to Upgrade to Windows 11?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Windows 11 will be released on October 5, 2021, and now we are starting to get emails asking if Microsoft will force Windows 10 users – whose computers support Windows 11 – to upgrade to Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

With Windows 10 support scheduled to last more than four years – until October 14, 2025, a lot of Windows 10 users want to stick with Windows 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

Windows 11 will be an optional update<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For now, Microsoft has made it quite clear that Windows 11 will be a free, but optional, upgrade. If you want to continue using Windows 10, you can.<\/span><\/p>\n

But knowing how Microsoft has done things in the past, a lot of users are worried that Microsoft will, in the future, force Windows 10 users, with Windows 11 compatible computers, to upgrade.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps because users remember how insistent Microsoft was in the past. For instance, when Windows 10 was an optional upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8, the first year Microsoft simply promoted Windows 10 to those users. But as time went by, Microsoft started pushing Windows 10 to users and made it easier for users to accidentally install it.<\/span><\/p>\n

With Windows 11, Microsoft has made it clear that it will be an optional upgrade. But it remains to be seen how Microsoft will push the upgrade in the future. One thing in users’ favor this time is that most computers older than four years cannot run Windows 11 and those users will not see the option to upgrade to Windows 11 at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we approach the October 14th, 2025, end of support date for Windows 10 — after that date Microsoft won\u2019t release any more security patches for Windows 10 which means it will become more vulnerable and more dangerous to use — Microsoft may become more aggressive and vigorous in promoting Windows 11. But it’s doubtful that it will ever force Windows 11 on users even then.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can try Windows 11 and go back to Windows 10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If your computer supports Windows 11, and you want to try it, you can do that. If you install Windows 11 on your Windows 10 computer, you can try it for ten days before deciding. <\/span><\/p>\n

That’s right – you’ll have ten days to see how you like Windows 11. If you don’t like it, just open Settings > Update & Security > Recovery and choose “Go back to the previous version of Windows”. If you do that within ten days of installing Windows 11, you can go back to Windows 10 without losing your files or programs.<\/span><\/p>\n

And should you install it accidentally, you have the same option to go back to Windows 10 without losing anything.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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