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At my organization, our concerns about migrating our fleet to Windows 11 have never been about unsupported devices, it is usability issues for both the tech savvy and those that do not easily learn new technology. As Windows 10 EOL is approaching and many problems remain, I'd like to hear what the Windows 11 team is doing to bridge the usability gap between the two operating systems. Namely, there are still huge differences in the Start Menu, Taskbar and Systray. The lack of continuity in function will create a huge loss of productivity and an added burden on our Help Desk. Here are a few specific items I know are barriers: users do not see All Apps when clicking the Start Menu without clicking an extra button, missing toolbars on taskbar (e.g. Desktop), no option to always show all icons in Systray, no option for two row Taskbar, centered Start Menu and Taskbar icons by default. In testing, we also found that preferences set in Win 10 are ignored when updating to Win 11 (e.g. hide search bar, expanded Explorer ribbon). It would be easy to update if Windows 11 included an option to use the Windows 10 Start Menu, Taskbar, and Systray, and all preferences were kept. What is the team doing anything to minimize these usability issues, address missing features from Windows 10, and overall create an experience that minimizes friction (particularly for those that are not tech savvy, but for everyone too) before Win 10 EOL?