Microsoft on Thursday officially announced its latest PC operating system update, called Windows 11.
It includes visual improvements, Microsoft Teams integration for people working from home and a new Microsoft store, among other changes — although a glitchy livestream of the event made it tricky for some viewers to catch all of the announcements.
The company announced new “snap layouts,” giving a user various window layout options from the “maximize” button so that they can choose from multiple layout templates to display two, three or four open applications on their screen.
It’s an improvement, but not substantially different from Windows 10’s Cortana and the new Interests taskbar app.
Microsoft Teams will be directly integrated into Windows 11 and will have its own icon on the taskbar.
Windows 11 will bring an “Auto HDR” feature for gamers, that will automatically improve the color and lighting of game displays, technology first introduced in Microsoft’s Xbox consoles.
Windows 11 comes six years after Microsoft last overhauled its operating system with Windows 10, a major update that’s now running on around 1. 3 billion devices worldwide, according to CCS Insight.
