Windows 11 looks modern. Just as important, it looks like Windows
Nine years after Microsoft shook things up with Windows 8, it seems to be at a place where it can tackle fresh challenges and still play to its strengths.
A high percentage of the virtual product launches I have attended since March 2020 have involved executives declaring that they’ve built the perfect product for the new era of work and play brought on by the pandemic. On Thursday, Microsoft’s presentation introducing Windows 11 was no different. So when I had a post-presentation chat with Panos Panay, the company’s chief product officer, the first question on my mind was whether the new version of Windows was indeed deeply informed by things the company had learned since COVID-19 struck, or had the company really formulated its plans for the upgrade before the world went into lockdown?