Microsoft doubles down on Windows 11 — calls for major Copilot+ PC upgrade cycle in 2025

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we need windows 12 by then as windows 10 is better than 11, so many things in 11 takes 3 clicks instead of 2,, hate that

In general, I prefer Windows 11 to 10. Most things it does better and it's a more polished-looking OS. I do miss the Live Tiles and more configurable Start menu, but I accept I'm in the minority on that and that very few users configured it (of course, with no way to put Live Tiles on the Desktop, which would have been the equivalent to the mobile Home Screen, of course they failed to appeal to Windows users).

However, one place where I strongly agree with you and serves as a daily pain point for me with Windows 11 is the lack of Jump Lists in the Start menu for pinned apps. I have dozens of apps where I need rapid access to a handful of key or recent documents. Those can't all be pinned to the Taskbar: it's not long enough, even on a 4K monitor, and even if it were, Taskbar lacks the organization capabilities of Start with its folders so I can group different app types.

Now, with these breaking changes to Start in Windows 11, I have to launch from Start, wait for the app to open, then right-click on the app that appears in the Taskbar to get at its Jump List (or pin the individual documents to Start, which I have done in a few cases, but that's goofy, doesn't work for recent docs, and is also inefficient in its own way). Given that there are Jump Lists for apps in Start, but only under All Apps rather than pinned, this is insane. You pin an app for fast access... but you can only fast-access the documents for apps that are not pinned? WTF!?

Still, in spite of this serious failing for me, Windows 11 is far better overall than Windows 10. If they would just address the missing Jump Lists for pinned apps...
 

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