Upcoming PCs could come with Windows 11 preinstalled or readily available as a free upgrade.

When Windows 11 arrives later this year, we're also expecting various hardware manufacturers to embrace the launch as a new opportunity to drive PC sales.

However, just like you can stop Windows 10 updates, users will have the option to defer a Windows 11 upgrade if preferred. A free upgrade to Windows 11 will be directly accessible through Windows Update as a typical installation. Microsoft may adopt a similar approach for Windows 11, providing a seamless upgrade for all existing Windows 10 devices. That's seen Windows 10 steadily evolve, now vastly improved, compared to those first versions.

After that, it issued seasonal updates to Windows 10 regularly, adopting an approach dubbed 'Windows as a Service.' Unlike previous Windows iterations, later superseded by full-fledged successors, Microsoft rapidly built upon foundations established in 2015.

Windows 10 was famously coined as the ' last version of Windows,' with free upgrades initially offered to Windows 7 and Windows 8 users.

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