From the course: Complete Guide to Supporting and Troubleshooting Windows 11 for Admins by Microsoft Press

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Overview of Windows 11

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From the course: Complete Guide to Supporting and Troubleshooting Windows 11 for Admins by Microsoft Press

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Overview of Windows 11

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- [Instructor] Windows client operating system has been around for quite some time. Windows NT first shipped back in 1993. It was designed from the ground up as a 32-bit operating system. It was also designed to run on different sorts of hardware and to support applications from different client operating systems. Many years later on, back in about, I suppose, 2013, Windows 8 introduced a touch interface. Now, a number of computers had been able to support a touch interface prior to that, but this was embedded within the core operating system. It heralded in a change in working practices, or at least that was the intent, I suspect. So you could use a tablet or a hybrid-type device, which was essentially a laptop with perhaps a removable keyboard, as you can see with some of the Surface devices from Microsoft, and you could get the best out of that by using an interface designed for touch. Windows 10 took a step back from that to a more familiar interface. That's not to say that…

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