Windows 11 shipped in October 2021 with hardware requirements that made fleets honest: TPM 2.0 or no ride. Five years of managed rollouts later, the OS itself has been a non-event, in the good sense.
The real story was lifecycle: the requirement forced replacement conversations businesses had deferred for years. Painful once, healthier after, especially with Windows 10 support now behind us.
Verdict: stable, secure, fine. The lesson was fleet planning, not the OS.
Reviewed from live fleet experience · published June 2026 · we earn a fair margin on some products we supply; reviews are not sponsored.
