Cons
How do you make corporate life more painful when upgrading everyone to Windows 11?
You lock down the Microsoft Edge browser so employees can’t install any extensions on it, making this browser completely useless for my purposes. (I prefer Edge to Chrome at work because the former uses ~20% less RAM, as shown in the screenshot below. Both browsers have a single tab open and our intranet home page is loaded on that tab.)
You lock down the Google Chrome browser so you can’t turn off the “offer to save passwords” feature, making it super irritating to use. <sigh>
Screenshot showing the Windows 11 Task Manager. Five apps are running, with Google Chrome taking up 605.7MB of memory and Microsoft Edge taking up 498.1MB of memory.
Oh well, at least they still let us install and use the Mozilla Firefox browser without any restrictions!
Sadly, while I love Firefox – and I use it as my default browser at home – I still end up using Chrome for most of what I do at work. Many of our corporate systems work best in Chrome so I have to grin and bear it as I click, “no, I never want to save this password for this site” over and over again.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pros
Conversely, here’s how corporate life is is less painful now that we’re upgrading to Windows 11:
Screenshot from the Windows 11 font manager showing Cascadia Code and Cascadia Mono fonts installed on the computer.
You win some, you lose some, I guess.
To be fair, as someone who cares very much about cybersecurity, I will always choose security over convenience.
Whether locking-down Edge that tightly will genuinely make our work computers more secure, I don’t know. That said, Edge is a Microsoft product so I guess it’s better to be safe than sorry :)
Still, being unable to install uBlock or any other ad blocker in our default web browser seems like a major oversight, especially since uBlock Origin used to come pre-installed in our browsers on Windows 10.
Like I said before: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯