Windows client roadmap update: April 2023

Maybe finish Windows 11 before forcing us onto it? 

Give me back my start menu and taskbar controls then I'll switch. Nobody asked you to copy MAC. If I wanted Apple garbage, I would use Apple.

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The current version, 22H2, will be the final version of Windows 10

On behalf of my entire community of friends and family, including their SMB companies, I want to thank Microsoft for the quit 2,5 years that lie ahead of us. No more unanticipated changes to the desktop, no more pop-ups for functionality that nobody ever asked for. We look ahead to be able to focus on our own core business again. Happy memories from the last years of Windows 7. Happy memories also from the last years of Office 2003. You'll guess why most of them have switched to LibreOffice nowadays.

Please, please offer LTS versions to anyone, not just large enterprises!

It seems a bit too soon to stop Windows 10 feature updates considering that it still has time left and Windows 11 still needs to be polished up.

We realize that a clear Windows client roadmap update helps consumers and organizations with planning their Windows release activities.

As soon as I read this sentence, I knew this article was a discontinuation notice, not a roadmap. The post-2012 Microsoft has no idea what's a roadmap, let alone stick with one. (Not only that, the post-2012 Microsoft keeps mistaking the word "inbox" for "built-in.")

A roadmap is a careful plan for transitioning the world from Windows 10-capable machines to Windows 11-capable machines. Other examples of roadmaps (planned transitions):

• Control Panel to Settings
• PowerShell 5.1 to PowerShell 7.3.4
• shipping .NET Framework 2.0 with Windows 11 to shipping .NET 8.0

Windows 11 is a mess.

**bleep** desktop right click menu, almost unusable, massive lag, sometimes needing to wait 2-3 seconds for the menu to appear, I have to figure out a way to replace it with 3rd party software.
**bleep** notepad update, use it for daily work to save temporary code, after update it became slow, I had to replace it with notepad3.
The right-click function of the taskbar has lost most of its functions.
Trayicon dragging the icon to the hidden icons does not work
The flickering problem has not been solved for a long time.
**bleep** taskbar color, my eyes are going blind.
Disk cleanup is hidden, I don't know what MS people do to change this, this is a frequently used function, why move it to a new setting to use the **bleep** cleanup function.
Windows 11 must log in to a Microsoft account, and there is almost only a one-tenth probability of being able to log in successfully in China.
The submenu for adjusting sound and network in the lower right corner is often unavailable, and it takes a very long time to see the content. I only need to simply modify the volume or output device, and then wait 5-10 seconds randomly before it may be displayed.

Making such a move in at a time where everyone should care about the environment, customers are forced to trash their working computers, to stay secure.

Not everyone has such high standards and is satisfied with their computer the way it is or performs. That’s why there are still computers sold with low powered CPUs like Pentium or i3. For what some people need it’s sufficient.

I don’t care how green MS Datacenters might get, calculate that amount of artificially made obsolete hardware, into your carbon rating and it will take ages to reach carbon-negative.

How about Windows 11 LTSC will it also have the same strict hardware requirements? Manufacturers of Embedded Hardware are often way behind with the CPU generations they use in their builds. Just recently got offered Industrial Clients with 8th Gen Intel CPUs, maybe would just make the curve for Win 11, but the biggest part of hardware currently at play here is 2nd & 7th Gen Intel. And those are often not easily changed as an upgrade would also involving third parties for the software part, communication with manufacturing machines etc.

Sad move.

Hey, how can I convert an existing Windows 10 client to LTSC so I can keep using perfectly fine hardware until it dies (or 2029, whichever comes first)? 

We are many to avoid W11 because of the much less functionnal start menu of W11.
W10 may be passé de mode in terms of design, but it's still more functionnal for pros (we run W10 enterprise and workstation). We need an OS that does not go in the way.
Please bring back the possbility to choose W10 start menu in W11 instead of that of W11.

Switched to Linux 15 years ago and have never been happier.

I keep my computers as long as I want (without any software company telling me when to upgrade), never spend a dime on an os, and am happy knowing my system is always up to date and secure.

Not to mention a desktop that is customizable however I want (I like taskbars...).

Only came here to relish never having to deal with this Microsoft BS ever again