14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has officially completed the rollout of Windows 11, as the company now labels the new operating system as ready for broad deployment.
In other words, Windows 11 is now ready for all eligible devices, so if you haven’t installed the new OS on your computer just yet, you’d better go to Windows Update because there might be a surprise waiting for you.
Microsoft originally announced Windows 11 in June 2021, and the company promised to complete the rollout to all eligible devices by the summer of this year.
“We’re also working with our retail partners to make sure Windows 10 PCs you buy today are ready for the upgrade to Windows 11. The free upgrade will begin to roll out to eligible Windows 10 PCs this holiday and continuing into 2022. And next week, we’ll begin to share an early build of Windows 11 to the Windows Insider Program – this is a passionate community of Windows fans whose feedback is important to us,” Panos Panay said at that point.
But earlier this year, the company revealed that the Windows 11 rollout was advancing faster than anticipated, so the broad availability was expected to be reached earlier.
Indeed, this is what seems to have happened, as Windows 11 therefore becomes available for all eligible devices earlier than the summer.
Just one bug at this point
Out of all bugs that have already been acknowledged by Microsoft, there’s just one that is yet to get a fix.
“After installing updates released May 10, 2022 on your domain controllers, you might see authentication failures on the server or client for services such as Network Policy Server (NPS), Routing and Remote access Service (RRAS), Radius, Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), and Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP). An issue has been found related to how the mapping of certificates to machine accounts is being handled by the domain controller,” Microsoft says.
A fix for this bug is already in the works.