It’s Microsoft, but not as we know it.
Not a resounding vote of confidence in Windows Server.
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Random discovery de jour 
Motherboards that do not have ‘TPM’ may have Intel ‘PTT’. Windows 11 readiness tool recognises PTT as TPM compliant.
It defaults to disabled on my ASUS motherboard and is in the motherboard setup->[advanced]->PCH-FW Configuration. If you don’t know it appears you won’t know.
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About the only change that seems controversial is the fixed taskbar.
Internet Explorer
What’s that? You thought it had been killed off already?
I thought they could never kill off IE, because it was an “integral part of Windows”.
Microsoft is going to try and bring back desktop widgets with Windows 11
Does the company remember why it dropped widgets/gadgets? They were a security nightmare! And security nightmares today are a lot worse than they were nine years ago.
Another feature pulled from the Start menu is the ability for users to group tiles together and name them
Well that annoys me. I group my start menu stuff, and even name the groups. I may not use the start menu very often, but when I do I want to be able to find things in logical order.
Yes, I have customised my taskbar, too. (Still on the bottom.)
The big thing I am looking forward to is that Windows 11 will leave your windows where you left them when using multiple monitors. This has been a bug-bear of mine for years.
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Hopefully it wont minimize all windows to 800x600 when monitors are turned off - takes me a while to reposition 30+ windows each morning. One day I might even google a fix for this … 
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This is my point - Windows 11 is the fix!
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I find that making the largest dpi monitor the main one, that when the others are turned off the windows that are open do not shrink to 800X600, they shrink to the dpi they were on the now closed monitor/monitors (3 active screens atm). On a restart of the powered off/disconnected ones the Windows revert to their previous placement and size.
Fences by Stardock may help as well (if permitted in your workplace) or try Microsoft Powertoys FancyZone tool https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/. PowerToys will need an install then enable the FancyZone and setup your desired settings.
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In a manner of speaking:
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So it’ll be something else for me to disable through the registry. Look on the bright side - Cortana is moving out of frame.
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I can feel a Linux coming on.
But before that:
Worth a try if all else fails:
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I suggest that this would be highly unlikely. Enterprise customers will be on Windows 10 for years to come and won’t want to ‘upgrade’ any time soon. They will, however, expect to see improvements to Windows 10.
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This is not going well for Microsoft.
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I am so over Win11 and all the hype. It looks like a complete fizzer.
No intention from me to bother with an upgrade when it is available.
I will just expect it to be there next laptop I buy.
Yawn.
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Got an older PC? All may not be lost if this info holds true. For non-techies the Creation Tool is about as easy as it gets after automatic update.
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Yes, but won’t be upgrading nor installing Windows 11.
Microsoft has a habit of having ‘dud’ OS almost turnabout with versions. As Windows 10 is generally considered a good one, so there is high chance 11 might worth watching before jumping in.
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Mozilla has developed and implemented a way to for a User to make the Firefox browser the default choice that seems to have broken the “safeguards” Microsoft built to help stop malware easily getting a hold in a Windows system.
Mozilla have not yet explained in detail how they achieved this change that only requires a choice in the Firefox browser rather than the usual “Settings” steps required. This raises concerns about malware intrusion as this bypassing of the usual manual changes in Settings may allow malware to be inserted into the Windows system with much less effort and user awareness.
An article about this follows
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The counter point to this is Microsoft makes it easier for a user to select it’s browser product Edge as the default. Is it a level playing field?
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Edge is the default and it does have the push from Microsoft even when making a choice about changing to another preferred browser. Edge is becoming a better browser but that doesn’t make it the one that should be the default but aside from that many other MS defaults are setup on install that require a change if you want something else instead eg PDF, music, video, mapping to name some. None of those require the same steps as the default browser does though but they still do require manual changes. A level playing field, no it isn’t, but neither is Apple’s default to Safari as their browser.
The noted concern regarding the change from one browser to another is not around what choice you make or even the push by MS to their default Edge but rather the security implications about how Mozilla bypassed the manual steps needed to change defaults, if it can be done for the browsers does this imply that any default or indeed any choice could be automated in such a way that malware gets an easier path to installation and running. This needs investigation and necessarily patching those security holes.
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On the rare occasion I use Edge, it wants to be the default browser. But I just say no, and Firefox remains the default. I have never encountered this issue on Win10.
From a default Windows install Edge is the default browser, once you have gone through the steps of selecting another Browser as default then yes it is easy to keep Firefox as the default. If you use Bing as a search engine or you use Edge occassionally yes you will get the annoying requests to try Edge or make it the default, just ignore or choose no. What this concern is about is that Firefox from the browser itself bypasses the steps normally required to change the defaults. These steps are supposed to be because of Windows security to stop drive by and unwanted installs or unwanted default choice changes.
