A hyperactive Widgets app pushes celebrity gossip. A new Start menu seems designed for enterprises. Aesthetically, Windows 11 sacrifices productivity for personality, but without cohesion. Last year, we often felt we had to do something, and for some very good reasons, but without a real sense of the way ahead. In some ways, Windows 11 feels very much like a product of 2020. Windows 11 doesn’t convincingly answer the question every PC user should ask: Why do I need this upgrade? The new operating system repurposes some of Microsoft’s cancelled Windows 10X code, but lacks the unified vision that 10X promised. Windows 11 will undoubtedly improve over time, but it’s a very polarizing upgrade that many users will want to forgo for now.
