MicrosoftI haven't used win11 enough to know if it is broken, but even for Enterprise and Pro customers, they sure do ask a lot in return. The last thing I want my users to se is a bunch of ads for stuff while I'm paying them to be productive. We pay big money for our E level account with all your cloud based services and Office 365 attached as well, you are killing us. I'm probably going to have to go through and block all Microsoft telemetry at my firewall, or at least as much as I can block, it's overbearing!
I'm also 2 years into requesting new computers that have an Intel 6th gen processor, they can not run win11 and I'm running short on time. October 2025 approaches quickly when budgets move at glacial speed. You are forcing people to pick between getting new hardware, or just running out of compliance. Bring in a mode that allows the user to decide if they need bitlocker and TPM2, not everyone needs these, especially not on shared computers in classrooms.
I'd also request that many of the old tools be refreshed to work again. Why kill WDS, and MDT? DISM still seems to be a core function, so why not give some of the little shops the tools to continue working without going to a third party. Your Config Manager and Intune seems to be tied to a domain, so if you run an isolated system, you are pretty much out of luck. And Intune seems to be a per computer fee, which again will kill many of us or push to things like JAMF to handle our computers and their config.
The only choice many of us have is moving to Apple hardware/OS, many of the things I need to run for classes will not function on Linux. Get into some of the other uses cases like emergency services and they are really in trouble, a lot of that stuff is Windows only, and most of that should be running Windows IOT which is still hard to get unless you are buying new equipment, your Enterprise licensing doesn't automatically give you rights to IOT.
All that said, asking for fixes in win11 are not likely, they will be fixed in 12 (do you remember when they said these would just be rolling releases of 10 and never change the numbers again?) Just like Vista and win8, everyone hated those and went XP to win7 to win10, and now it looks like we have half a dud with win11 so hoping that things are better once 12 hits.
Oh well, off to find more eval versions of 11 so I can try them and see what features are where and how much work I need to do to cut stuff out, waiting for LTSC. And get my third party imaging up to speed so I'm ready for the eventual time when I get new supported hardware.
