Microsoft is dealing with an issue. Years after launching Windows 11, prospects merely want Windows 10 extra. So the Windows advertising and marketing workforce is making an attempt all the pieces they’ll emigrate customers to Windows 11 — and a latest video reveals how they’re, properly, failing.

Look, we get it: transitioning to an unfamiliar means of doing issues is tough. And should you’re comfy with even an inefficient means of navigating about (sorry, command-line Linux customers) you’re going to keep it up. But promoting the Windows 11 with a Start menu that’s a “game-changer”? Whew. No.

“Start Fresh Without Stating Over” is Microsoft’s swing at simply this. The video (embedded beneath) is properly, oh man.

“This new Start menu is a game-changer,” a assured younger feminine voice intones. “I can find exactly what I need in no time.”

Let’s cease right here for a second. By default, Windows 10 places apps to the facet of its Start menu, with a navigable record of apps that may be scrolled up and down. In Windows 11, your apps could seem within the mishmash of apps proven off within the Start menu, however not should you lately put in them. Then you must squint, click on the “all apps” button and make your means down by to that record.

So, if what you’re doing? Sure. Otherwise, no. The solely game-changer here’s a 30-second timeout whilst you seek out what you’re searching for.

“This new File Explorer keeps me totally organized,” the narrator continues. “It makes it so easy to find all my files.”

To me, File Explorer in Windows 10 and Windows 11 doesn’t differ by that a lot — with a few ache factors that Microsoft doesn’t handle on this video. Namely, the “show more options” right-click possibility that makes File Explorer primarily provide a double menu, and the hieroglyphic copy/paste/rename icons that Microsoft is thankfully attaching labels to in a latest Windows 11 check construct.

But discovering recordsdata isn’t terrific, both. As commenters level out, the tile interface of Windows 10 does make it simpler to floor fast hyperlinks and shortcuts arguably higher than the “Recommended” file record in Windows 11. I’m simply ready for the day the place Microsoft indexes my SSD quick and properly sufficient that I don’t have to attend dozens of seconds for it to search out particular recordsdata, in both Windows 10 or 11.

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The remaining level that the video makes — that Windows Defender simply protects your PC — is true, and has been for years.

“Windows 11 just makes the everyday, easier,” the video concludes.

It actually doesn’t. Windows 11 does provide lots, particularly should you’re desirous to see what AI-powered options like Automatic Super Resolution will provide. But even then, Microsoft has injected Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 11 now has occasional feature “ads,” too. But stripping Windows 10 options away just like the tiled interface and adjustable taskbar makes essentially the most frequently-used options of Windows really feel considerably alien to a Windows 10 person.

Unfortunately, Windows 10 support ends in 2025 in about eighteen months’ time. That offers Microsoft’s workforce many extra months to try to persuade Windows 10 customers to modify. You’ll have to do it by then for safety causes anyway, as a result of staying on a lifeless working system is insanity.