Now you can instantly connect through text, chat, voice or video with all of your personal contacts, anywhere, no matter the platform or device they’re on, across Windows, Android or iOS. With Windows 11, we’re excited to introduce Chat from Microsoft Teams integrated in the taskbar. And we don’t want the device or platform you’re on to be a barrier. Even as we start to return to more in-person interaction, we want to continue to make it easy for people to stay close with each other no matter where they are. The last 18 months drove new behavior for how we create meaningful connections with people digitally. Redesigned for productivity, creativity and easeĪnother critical part of bringing you closer to what you love is bringing you closer to the people you love. Today, I am humbled and excited to introduce you to Windows 11, the Windows that brings you closer to what you love. To build you a place that feels familiar, where you can create, learn, play and most importantly, connect in all new ways. This is what inspired us as we were building the next generation of Windows. What was so powerful was the shift in the PC we saw and felt – from something practical and functional to something personal and emotional.

In the process we found ourselves recreating the office banter, the hallway chatter, workouts, happy hours and holiday celebrations – digitally. Our devices weren’t just where we went for meetings, classes and to get things done, but where we came to play games with friends, binge watch our favorite shows and, perhaps most meaningfully, connect with one another. The past 18 months brought an incredible shift in how we used our PCs we went from fitting the PC into our lives to trying to fit our whole lives into the PC. The responsibility of designing for that many people is one we don’t take lightly. Windows is the place people go to create, to connect, to learn and to achieve – a platform over a billion people today rely on. It’s the place where many of us wrote our first email, played our first PC game and wrote our first line of code. It’s been the backbone of global businesses and where scrappy startups became household names. Windows has always existed to be a stage for the world’s innovation. At a time when the PC is playing a more central role in our lives, Windows 11 is designed to bring you closer to what you love.

Windows 11 official launch date