Microsoft is preparing Windows 11 for the post-pandemic world

On Thursday, Microsoft is set to announce the next big release of Windows, and with it new features designed for modern life. And that's after the coronavirus has irrevocably changed the way we live and work. And it may soon change our devices, too.

And Windows 11 has the usual upgrades you'd expect after six years. Early leaks indicate that it will have a new look, offering more subtle pastel-like color schemes, rounded corners and good beeps.

It contains widgets to tell you the weather or track a shipped package. In addition to the usual Start menu, with app icons arranged in the middle, it looks like it was inspired by a smartphone, tablet or Mac computer.

But larger changes will be invisible. It is expected that Microsoft will renew Windows computers for a new world, where people do not work only in the office, and when they are at home, they may work via personal devices.

When the company's CEO, Satya Nadella, teased the new Windows system last month, he touched on the nature of the upgrade.

And he said: When the storefronts closed, it helped us reimagine where humanity could go and what we could do, transcending time and even space, and this is just the beginning.

It may seem cliché to think that an operating system can change our lives. But thanks to the vaccines that people around the world are getting, they are looking to the future.

Employers are also finding that their workforce does not want to return to office life, and instead wants to work from flexible accommodation.

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Windows 11 for a post-pandemic world:

Microsoft has spent the past few years building technologies, like Timeline. Which allows people to switch to another computer and open all the documents and windows they were using more easily.

In the new world, Microsoft may find opportunities to target these types of features to people who have computers for work in the office and at home.

There is increasing data to suggest this. Despite shortages of chips and other supplies across the technology industry. Analysts estimate that laptop and desktop computers may see their highest sales this year.

With this in mind, Microsoft's choice to market Windows 11 as a major upgrade could help the industry respond to these trends. This is through new computer designs that highlight the new look and features of working from anywhere for Windows 11.

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And Microsoft won't just renew Windows. The company is also expected to answer long-standing concerns about how its computers will behave.

It is hoped that Microsoft will fix the Settings app, which competes with the Control Panel for changing functions across a Windows PC.

Other Windows users have long hoped that Microsoft would change the way updates are obtained and installed. Which has always been an annoying process.

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Updates and security patches should take no more than 20 minutes in 2021, and should be consistent with how Mac, iPad, or even iPhone updates.

Microsoft should take the opportunity to address some long-known complaints that have yet to be identified.

Either way, the company believes that Windows 11 lives up to its hopes, and shortly after a copy of the Windows 11 update leaked online, the company tweeted, "This is just the beginning."