

Touch targets have also been made larger so it's easier to use for touch.Īndroid apps will also now be able to be installed on Windows 11 via the Microsoft Store which itself will be redesigned. On tablets, snapped Windows change orientation if you move to portrait from landscape. Windows 11 will also remember how you laid out your windows on an external display and give you access to that layout when you re-dock. Windows can now be arranged in different ways, while Windows will remember your layouts so you can easily get back to them in future. Snap groups and Snap layouts are particularly cool - enabling you to have greater flexibility and choice over how you set up your display with multiple windows. Windows 11 features various interface tweaks including a new Start menu that looks more like an app launcher, more rounded corners, snap controls that let you pin a window to a spot in your screen (and snap groups), a new Widgets area and icon in the taskbar and a new Windows setup experience.
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The more stringent requirements are thanks to the security measures that processors made from that date onwards have, support for a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is officially mandatory - though it seems it may be possible to install it on older machines in the future (Microsoft is currently testing it on 7th gen Intel Core PCs, for example).Ĭoincidentally, you'll now need to have a Microsoft Account to set up Windows 11 Home though this isn't the case for other versions.

We've covered this off in more detail in our Windows 11 system requirements feature but this time Microsoft says you can only install it on processors made from roughly 2016-17 onwards - for Intel PCs that's 8th generation Core and up (plus certain Celeron, Pentium and Atom chips).
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