Microsoft showing Windows 11 upgrade prompts on more Windows 10 devices

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Starting April 2024, Microsoft is extending upgrade offers to Windows 11 on Windows 10 devices. The company announced the plan on its Tech Community website this week.

When Microsoft released Windows 11 in late 2021, it enabled upgrades for a subset of devices only. Staged rollouts are used to detect and address issues that have not been noticed during development. In the case of Windows 11, Microsoft had to address AMD performance issues among other issues.

Microsoft showed upgrade prompts to Windows 10 users regularly. The Windows 10 update KB5020683 of 2022 included such a prompt for instance.

It announced the availability of Windows 11 and used a dark pattern design to increase conversions. The prompt highlighted the "upgrade" action and did not include an option to skip the offer permanently.

Recently, Microsoft started to show upgrade prompts again to Windows 10 users. The full screen popups told users that Microsoft recommended Windows 11 for their PC. This one did include an option to decline the upgrade.

The next wave of Windows 11 upgrade prompts



Microsoft announced the next wave of Windows 11 upgrade prompts on its Tech Community website saying that it has "good news" for its customers.

There, the company reveals that it plans to display Windows 11 upgrade prompts to "Windows users working on cloud-domain joined and domain joined non-managed business devices".
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