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Work: They use DevOps and will push it out when they want me to have it.
Home: If MS gets too annoying about updating, maybe.
I agree with the skip every other Windows version rule. Except for Millenium, the others weren't broken, but they weren't good either. I've run them all successfully.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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None of my PCs meet the Win11 HW requirements. When my current PCs need replacing, I'll probably upgrade to 11, but not before. A new OS is not a reason to buy a new PC -- for me at least.
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Agreed. 
/ravi
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Same here, but will probably be buying new hardware within a year or two. My desktop's an I7-4790k, and my personal laptop an i5-6xxx. If it wasn't for Covid cancelling most of my away from home this year I'd've probably replaced my laptop a few months ago. My desktop is old enough my baseline planning is to swap it out within the next about 2 years. Might be next year; but I'd like to skip DDR4/PCIe4 and for the former also first consumer year products due to them generally being elephanted on price/performance.
Edit: On the work side, my macbook doesn't have/expose a (soft)TPM to Windows so it's blocked.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Same here. My laptop is 6 yo and desktop 7 yo. I was planning to replace the desktop, but prices due to COVID have delayed that. I may replace it next year.
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I replaced my desktop this year as main machine (after 14 years or so) and even though, I am probably going to wait to test windows 11.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yeah I'll probably trial it on my new laptop before switching my main desktop over a year or two from now. The laptop is a secondary travel system for me, so I've used them that way in the past as far back as when Vista came out. (Yes it had major problems at release, but I was running up against the 4gb limit; and for gaming XP64 would've been worse because it was just reskinned server 2003.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Same here. I honestly don't remember when I bought my current PC, but the CPU (an i7-5820K) was released in 2014. My "problem" is that I am fully satisified with the machine, and have no reason to upgrade. It has far more speed/capacity than I need.
Years ago, I had to upgrade from XP to Win7 because I needed software that required OS functionality not available in XP. Some day, I will see the same with Win11 - or maybe it will be Win12 before that happens. Then I'll have to buy a new motherboard and CPU. But I will probably continue running my current Win10 machine for 'legacy' task.
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My personal laptop doesn't have tpm 2, so it won't get Windows 11.
My work laptop has tpm 2 and my boss sounded keen to upgrade. I'm just not looking forward to reconfiguring or reinstalling things. There are also some features missing from the taskbar that I've become used to that I'll miss, so I'm not in a hurry to upgrade.
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I don't see my alternative: "after testing my critical applications on a test environment". I have set up a test machine on which I am also checking VS 2022 previews.
Sorry for my bad English
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Looks like TPM is a hard requirement for Windows 11.
I bought a HP laptop with Windows 10 just a year back and even though TPM is enabled in the BIOS, when I check tpm.msc in Windows, it says it can't find TPM. I even did a BIOS upgrade but no luck, it's apparently enabled and recognized in the BIOS but not in the OS 
Cheers,
Vikram.
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but there's a possibility that the system I have sitting idle won't support it.
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Seriously, who cares? As long as it can run the software I need and is reasonably stable, I don't see a difference.
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I'll probably move to win11 once understand if the hardware is supported or not. Haven't looked under the hood or tried any of the update adviser
I don't mean supported as it Ms say it's OK, I mean if it will actually run or not regardless of official supported config.
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I always wait for reports from the "bleeding edge" before installing a new version of an O/S, compiler, or any other important tool.
That is my big worry with the Office 365 or Windows 365 programs - old bugs (sometimes) out, new bugs in, with no way to avoid them.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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And will shortly upgrade to Win10 - after I finmd a good suite to block all the "telemetry" of said piece of crap.
I will eventually get Win11. Eventually. Maybe.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Same here... I've built a new Development workstation for Windows 10 (yeah, ten), and while the machine itself is fast, working with it is a major PITA! I despise the UIs post Windows 7.
Thinking about trying to find a way to get my 64 bit Win7 Ultimate to install on that newer hardware just so it isn't merely serving as a doorstop. So far, the installer doesn't like it.
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I got used to W10 on the job, but I prefer W7 due to less data sent around and less obtrusive stuff.
Games nowadays are requiring W10 (damn you, Star Wars: Squadrons) so I will move to it on my home/gaming PC. Also it's slowly dying so I'll have to reinstall, therefore I will upgrade in the process.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I so rarely play any computer games that it's not a problem for me. If I do, it's usually something I've had for a long time that runs on W7.
For someone that writes ActiveSync Services, HTTP based APIs, IP Screening and Geolocation stuff, I honestly hate being "connected".
Windows 10+ fights you like hell to force you to be "connected". Ain't having it.
When I'm not working, I try to avoid getting near any of my systems. I prefer to be out in my garage, shop, pasture or woods building, fabricating, growing, cutting or shooting things.  I purposely turn off my phone and just carry a radio for emergencies. Drives the g/f nuts!
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I too run Win7,but given the age of my PC I may have to replace it one of these days. So I will have no choice regarding what version of Windows I will have.
Speaking of choices, I could have selected several of the responses to this survey question.
Joan F Silverston
jsilverston@cox.net
nhswinc.com
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which is probably in <= 2 year's time.
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No because at the new job we run on Mac books
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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