Welcome to Windows
Experience the POWER of an AI assistant that watches your screen, records your keystrokes, and sends it all to Bing for "personalization." It's not a bug, it's Recall™.
¹ "AI" here means "a large language model that will confidently give you the wrong answer."
² "Welcome" is conditional on your agreement to our 847-page Terms of Service (updated last Tuesday).
³ Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, a 64-bit processor, 4GB RAM, 64GB storage,
a DirectX 12 compatible GPU, internet connection, Microsoft account, blood type, and your mother's maiden name.
🌟 Explore Windows 11's New Features
Windows 11 is more powerful than ever. Discover the latest features to help you be productive, creative, and more. (Note: "more" means "more subscriptions.")
A New AI Era Begins
Copilot+ PCs bring you AI features like Recall, which takes a screenshot of your screen every few seconds and stores it locally for "just you." Totally private. We mean it this time.
(patch reversing this coming in 6-8 business weeks)
Sync Your Phone and PC
Now your phone and PC can be annoyed at each other simultaneously. Phone Link connects your Android to Windows so you can ignore notifications on TWO devices at once. iPhone users: lol no.
Learn more about syncing →Smart Security™
Before you even START your PC, Windows 11 is at work. Safeguarding your device from phishing, network attacks, and your own decisions. Also Defender will pop up every 4 minutes to tell you you're safe.
Learn more about Windows 11 security →Windows 11 Works How You Work
Accessibility features for everyone! Including the new "Snap Layouts" feature, which will make you arrange your windows in a grid whether you need to or not. The taskbar remains centered. You still can't move it back to the left easily.
Learn more about accessibility →Gaming Never Looked So Good
DirectStorage, Auto HDR, and Xbox Game Pass integration! Requires a GPU that costs more than your rent. Also requires you to sign into your Xbox account, your Microsoft account, your gaming account, AND your PC account. They are all different.
Learn more about Windows gaming →Creativity Meets Intelligence
Use AI to focus on the moments that matter most. Edit your photos with the new AI eraser that sometimes erases the wrong thing but with great confidence. Clipchamp video editor: it's iMovie but somehow worse.
Learn more about Photos and Clipchamp →🖥️ Find the Right PC For You
Get the best Windows yet. (What's "best" is relative. Best compared to Windows 8. Best compared to what? A typewriter? Unclear.)
Copilot+ PCs
The future of computing. Has a special NPU chip for running AI locally. Required for Recall. Recall was delayed, then released, then pulled, then re-released. The NPU chip is mostly a very expensive paperweight.
View Copilot+ PCs →Laptops
A laptop. Runs Windows. Comes with 47 pre-installed apps you didn't ask for, a 30-day trial of McAfee, and a desktop shortcut to Candy Crush. The factory bloatware is considered a "feature."
View laptops →Desktop Computers
A big computer that sits on your desk. Requires a monitor (not included), keyboard (not included), mouse (not included), and the will to live (rapidly depleted by Windows Update).
View desktops →Gaming PCs
RGB lights on everything. Costs $3,499. Will be outdated in 18 months. Comes with a gaming chair that you'll throw away when you realise your back hurts after 8 hours of gaming. Worth it.
View gaming PCs →2-in-1s
Is it a laptop? Is it a tablet? It's BOTH! Which means it's sort of bad at both simultaneously. The keyboard wobbles. The screen is too heavy to use as a tablet. You will use it as a laptop. Why did you buy this.
View 2-in-1s →🗺️ Start Your Windows 11 Journey
Get the help you need to make your switch to Windows 11 simple. It is not simple. We lied. But here are some links.
Laptop Buying Guide
A 47-page guide that concludes: "it depends." Includes a helpful comparison table where every product is "recommended" with a different star rating that makes no sense. Ultimately suggests you just look at the price and pick one.
Read the buying guide →Windows Backup
Back up your files to OneDrive! OneDrive gives you 5GB free — just enough to back up half of your desktop. For more storage: $1.99/month. For all your files: $9.99/month. For peace of mind: priceless (also $9.99/month).
Learn more about Windows Backup →Windows Support
Have a problem? Start with our search bar, which will link you to a forum post from 2011 marked [RESOLVED] where the resolution is "I just gave up." Alternatively, have you tried turning it off and on again? Please try that first. We'll wait.
Get Windows Support →Learning Resources
Microsoft Learn: thousands of free courses about Microsoft products. Upon completion, you will be a certified expert in things that will be deprecated in 18 months. Your LinkedIn certification badge will confuse recruiters.
View learning resources →☠️ End of Support for Previous Versions (Goodbye Forever)
Windows 10 (R.I.P. 2015–2025)
Beloved by all. Hated by Microsoft because you're not buying a new PC. End of support coming soon. You have two options: buy a new PC or buy "Extended Security Updates" ($30/year, still no new features).
Extended Security Updates for Windows 10 →Windows 8.1 (Mercifully Dead)
Reached end of support January 10, 2023. Remembered fondly by nobody. The Start screen that replaced the Start menu. The charms bar. The hot corners. Design decisions made by someone who had never used a mouse.
End of support resources →Windows XP (Somehow Still Running ATMs)
End of support: April 8, 2014. Still running: hospital machines, ATMs, airport departure boards, your parents' computer in the spare room, and frankly a concerning number of nuclear facilities. Immortal.
What to do if you're still on XP →🔗 Complete Index of All Windows Links (There Are So Many)
The following is a complete and faithful reproduction of the Microsoft Windows navigation experience. All links are blue. All links are underlined. Clicking any of them will open a new tab that contains more blue links.