Sarafan: Are you planning to upgrade, considering the fact that these rumors will be confirmed? W10 will be supported to year 2025 at least, so there's no need to rush.

Sarafan: It's almost certain that Windows 11 will be announced by Microsoft on June 24th. There are videos and screens from the leaked version, so we can be sure that the new system is coming. What's more, sources tell that there will be a free upgrade option from Windows 7, 8.1 and 10.

Personally I'm planning to stick with Windows 10 for some time. The main reason is that I play a lot of old games and I can bet there will be compatibility issues for some time after the new system is released. While I expect DOSBox to be fully compatible even with W11, this might not be the case for games using DirectX 8 and older. Of course there's always an option to keep two operating systems installed simultaneously, for example W11 for new games and W7 for older titles. This may be the best available option once the new system is released.

Are you planning to upgrade, considering the fact that these rumors will be confirmed? W10 will be supported to year 2025 at least, so there's no need to rush.

anizawa: I'm giving it an immediate "wait and see", as well as if I actually need to right now. Unless mandated by the office.

But considering my bad experience with Windows 10; from it suddenly "upgrading" my Win 8 laptop without warning to Win 10, also updating during work hours and during shut down. Making my laptop run so slow that I lost time during office hours I filed a request to revert my laptop to Windows 8 OS that day.

"Free upgrades" aren't that appealing if they device you are using can't handle it.

Zimerius: No, not really, unless they promise and deliver some form of speed gain, in that case i will be upgrading before you know it

TomNook: If it's free, yeah.
If it's a subscription model, nah.

Tharon: I will glady update to a newer, stable and more performant OS. But Windows 10/11 is a "service" so i will stick with Windows 7.

Seriously, i don't see the point of an OS that changes things around every six months. It's an operative system, not a piece of forniture.

BrianSim: Nope. They can't even get W10 right after 6 years of trying (bi-polar settings app vs Control Panel, buggy updates, ugly overly-flat "wall of whitespace" UI redesigns, etc). A lot of gamers who hate W10's unstable "Feature Updates" quietly use Enterprise 2019 LTSC which is probably the least worst version of W10 and is actually supported through to 2029. So if Microsoft does something stupid like remove DirectX5-9 compatibility to "enhance" that nouveau chic supercilious "modern experience", there's always that option as a backup plan.

nightcraw1er.488: Ah, I see. New version of windows and everything will break. Nonsense. Nothing will stop working. I will likely update my main machine. The version I got is an OEM pro injected onto the motherboard, even though I paid lots for it (which is why I will not bother with pcspecialist again). So I might just fork out a proper license/disc. Whilst I still have another win10, and a win 7 box, I rarely use them now. Windows apparently does everything I need juxtaposed to the insistence of the world at large stating nothing runs on it.

Sarafan: It's almost certain that Windows 11 will be announced by Microsoft on June 24th. There are videos and screens from the leaked version, so we can be sure that the new system is coming. What's more, sources tell that there will be a free upgrade option from Windows 7, 8.1 and 10.

Personally I'm planning to stick with Windows 10 for some time. The main reason is that I play a lot of old games and I can bet there will be compatibility issues for some time after the new system is released. While I expect DOSBox to be fully compatible even with W11, this might not be the case for games using DirectX 8 and older. Of course there's always an option to keep two operating systems installed simultaneously, for example W11 for new games and W7 for older titles. This may be the best available option once the new system is released.

Are you planning to upgrade, considering the fact that these rumors will be confirmed? W10 will be supported to year 2025 at least, so there's no need to rush.

Sarafan: Personally I think that sooner or later Microsoft will drop support for 32-bit applications. This will be a major and controversial change that will force users to use some kind of emulator to launch older software. The drop of DirectX 5-9 isn't impossible in the foreseeable future, but I highly doubt that so radical changes will be introduced in W11.

pds41: Nightcraw1er.488 is as ever correct. Obviously, updating in the first months is higher risk. so you wait for 6 months (assuming free upgrade stands) and then pull the trigger.

Sarafan: Personally I think that sooner or later Microsoft will drop support for 32-bit applications. This will be a major and controversial change that will force users to use some kind of emulator to launch older software. The drop of DirectX 5-9 isn't impossible in the foreseeable future, but I highly doubt that so radical changes will be introduced in W11.Sarafan: I had some compatibility issues after updating to W10 in the first months after the system was released. My USB TV tuner stopped working and I had some troubles launching some older games (these were mostly using DirectX 8 or older). These were mostly fixed by the updates. The question is whether Microsoft is planning to introduce a new version of DirectX along with the release of W11. If so, the compatibility issues will be present to some extent.