>>Not sure what the adoption rate will be. From my reading, about 90 percent of the hardware today will not run Win11 (has to be fairly current generation CPUs - last few years). So my guess is that it will not be widely adopted as it will require purchasing new hardware.
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>>I for one do not want to purchase a new system. My current system works very well on Win10. The feature list of Win11 does not have any features that I would "have to have". So for me right now it is a no-go.
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>I'm in a similar situation. I'm not getting too worked up about it right now, things are subject to change.
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>Whether deliberately or not, Microsoft has positioned themselves to take advantage of a classic psychological ploy. I imagine one goal with a "new" OS version is to not have to support old hardware; it's politically infeasible to do that via a Win10 feature update. Maybe their actual goal is to deprecate 90% of existing machines. But if it's, say, 50% then later on they can relax the requirements and they appear "generous".
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>This is like retail MSRPs vs actual selling prices.

Indeed it may be better to have minimum requirements a bit too high than to have them set low. You probably don't want to have repeat of the Vista debacle (part of the problem were that many systems that were supposedly "Vista capable" were barely capable).