Microsoft, which has just entered the $2 trillion market capitalization club, launched a new generation of operating system Windows 11 on Thursday (24th), ushering in a major update of the operating system for nearly six years.
This news motivated Microsoft (MSFT-US) to receive a 0.53% dividend to US$266.69 per share, and the market value came to US$2.01 trillion.
Since Windows 10 went on the market on July 29, 2015, more than 1.3 billion units worldwide have used Windows 10, making it the most popular personal computer (PC) operating system in the world.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on Thursday that the launch of Windows 11 today marks an important milestone in the history of Windows, and this is the beginning of a new generation.
Windows accounts for more than 10% of Microsoft’s revenue. Even if the company achieves growth through the sale of cloud services, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many people benefited from the effect of the home economy. Many people use Windows 10 online learning, remote office and games to let Windows bring Windows to Microsoft. More income.
The following is a full record of the highlights of the Windows 11 online conference:
Focus One:[開始] Menu “center”
Compared with Windows 10, the interface of Windows 11 has a brand new change.[開始] The menu changes from the left to the center, and the corners of the window become rounded corners. The design language of translucent and shadow is widely used, mainly for the convenience of touch users.
The Windows icon is reduced to a square with four panes of the same size.
Focus 2: Improve performance and eliminate pain points for multi-screen users
Microsoft Product Director Panos Panay mentioned that the overall concept of the new interface design is to make users feel an incredible sense of calm, and whether it is 40% faster update speed, startup and browsing speeds are faster than the old version of Windows.
With the new designs of Snap Layouts, Snap Groups and new Desktops in Windows 11, users can easily perform intuitive multi-tasking and handle multiple tasks at the same time.
The window layout function allows users to choose to split the screen into two, three or four grids to fix the desired window position. The window group can remember which applications the user has used before.
The desktop design allows users to customize the desktop space and switch between work, games and entertainment, and school study, just like on a Mac.
Focus 3: New software, apps and Microsoft Store
Microsoft is integrating its Teams productivity application directly below the Windows start screen, which makes Teams Microsoft’s Facetime.
Various gadgets are provided through Microsoft Edge to recombine news, weather and other functions. Among them, Widgets uses artificial intelligence (AI) to provide personalized content, which can be displayed on the entire screen by swiping from left to right. For news and Content creators can also pay directly for “Shake Inside”.
Users can easily find required third-party applications and favorite programs in the new version of the Microsoft Store.
Focus 4: Surprise! Windows supports Android for the first time
The Windows 11 operating environment will directly support Android applications. This is the first time that Microsoft has integrated Android into Windows. Users can download and execute them through Amazon’s Appstore. The openness has never been seen before.
Focus Five: Sour Apples!Microsoft does not draw developer commissions
Microsoft hopes to create a more open ecosystem to help developers bring more applications to the new version of the Microsoft Store, allowing developers to use their own business engines in their applications.
Microsoft Product Director Panos Panay mentioned that Microsoft Store developers can enjoy all the income. They will not collect developer commissions like Apple, but developers can still choose to use Microsoft’s business system to share the revenue at 85 to 15.
Focus 6: Microsoft brings Xbox features to Windows
Microsoft claims that Windows 11 will bring gaming capabilities to a whole new level, providing the best PC gaming experience to date. Windows 11 brings immersive images and a more realistic visual experience through DirectX 12 Ultimate and Auto HDR functions
Microsoft will subscribe to the game services Xbox Game Pass for PC and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate directly integrated into Windows 11, users can play more than 100 high-quality games.
Focus Seven: Time to Market
On Thursday, Microsoft launched a major update for the Windows system in the past six years. The preview version of Windows 11 will be used by some test users as early as next week through the Windows Insider Program.
Windows 11 will be officially available around Christmas this year. At that time, Windows 10 users can get a free upgrade.
Wall Street Analysis
CCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber does not think that this version has taken a revolutionary step. He believes that Microsoft has pointed out the flaws in Windows, but it has not brought a radical new change.
Forrester chief analyst JP Gownder said that this is really a feature-rich Windows 10 update, not a full version release. Microsoft’s ultimate goal is to ensure that Windows 10 is upgraded to Windows 11 enough to offset any user complaints.