Home windows 11 arrives on October 5, Android apps will come later

Home windows 11 is now not merely “coming this fall.” Microsoft will start releasing the brand new working system to the general public on October 5, beginning with newer PCs (and PCs being bought in shops) after which rolling out to different supported programs over the following 9 or so months. The corporate additionally says that the Amazon-powered Android app help coming to Home windows 11 will not be prepared for public consumption at launch; Microsoft will provide “a preview [of Android apps in the Microsoft Store] for Home windows Insiders over the approaching months.”

Like current Home windows 10 updates, Home windows 11 could have a phased rollout by way of Home windows Replace—most PCs will not start to see and routinely set up the replace on October 5. Microsoft says that new PCs would be the first to improve, adopted by older suitable PCs, “primarily based on intelligence fashions that contemplate {hardware} eligibility, reliability metrics, age of system and different components.” As with Home windows 10 updates, you’ll obtain an ISO file to provoke the improve your self (Microsoft additionally affords instruments just like the Home windows Replace Assistant to manually set off improve installs; we assume the corporate will present this method for Home windows 11, too). All suitable PCs ought to be supplied the replace by mid-2022.

For PCs that do not meet Microsoft’s stringent system necessities—a current 64-bit Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm processor; enabled Safe Boot help; and a TPM 2.0 module together with 4GB or extra of RAM and 64GB or extra of storage—Microsoft has been cagey. Neither at this time’s announcement nor a submit from final week explaining the safety necessities mentions with the ability to set up Home windows 11 on unsupported PCs. However Microsoft advised reporters that it will not disallow set up on incompatible programs so long as you put in the working system manually, however the firm can later assert its proper to withhold safety and driver updates on these PCs if it needs to.

As we speak’s announcement merely says that “Home windows 10 is the precise alternative” for these older programs and reiterated that Home windows 10 will obtain safety updates by way of October 14, 2025. Home windows 10 21H2 will likely be launched in parallel with Home windows 11 on a date that hasn’t been introduced but; it isn’t clear whether or not Home windows 10 will proceed to obtain twice-a-year characteristic updates after that, however Home windows 11 will likely be up to date on an annual schedule fairly than twice a 12 months.