Windows 11 is on the way in which, and it’s going to deliver with it a brand new look, new colours, and new options when it turns into out there later within the 12 months. But not the whole lot that’s presently in Windows 10 goes to outlive the improve.

Expect a couple of additions and subtractions when it comes to options between now and the general public rollout of Windows 11, however right here’s the whole lot that can get misplaced alongside the way in which that we learn about thus far.

Internet Explorer

What’s that? You thought it had been killed off already? It’s truly nonetheless out there in Windows 10, in the event you dig deep sufficient, however all traces of Internet Explorer are going to be eliminated in Windows 11, with Microsoft Edge changing it. For these actually, actually outdated legacy apps and websites you continue to want entry to for no matter purpose, use the IE mode in Edge.

Timeline

You might have by no means used Timeline, which is probably one of many causes it’s going away with the arrival of Windows 11. The function permits you to sync your exercise throughout a number of Windows computer systems over the past 30 days (recordsdata you’ve opened, web sites you’ve visited, and many others.), making it simpler to leap between gadgets logged in with the identical Microsoft account.

Live Tiles

Developers didn’t actually embrace the Live Tiles function on the Windows 10 Start menu, which allows totally different snippets of knowledge to be proven and up to date in actual time. If you suppose that sounds loads like widgets, you’d be proper. But Microsoft goes to try to deliver again desktop widgets with Windows 11, so let’s hope they work higher than Live Tiles.

Start Menu Groups 

Another function pulled from the Start menu is the power for customers to group tiles collectively and title them: productiveness, writing, video games, or no matter. The structure of the Start menu received’t be resizable both, so it sounds as if Microsoft needs to make the Start menu expertise a lot the identical for everybody (in addition to transfer it into the middle of the display screen).

Quick Status

In Windows 10, functions can go away little blocks of knowledge on the lock display screen to remind you about incoming emails, upcoming calendar appointments, and many others. This performance, referred to as Quick Status, received’t be out there to packages when Windows 11 arrives—though it’s attainable that widgets (see above) will take up among the slack.

Taskbar Location

Speaking of chopping out customizations, the taskbar can solely be in a single place in Windows 11: on the backside of the display screen. You might need by no means realized it, however you possibly can place the taskbar on the left, on the precise, and even on the high of the display screen in Windows 10. If you want making these types of tweaks in your working system, you’re going to be out of luck.

Tablet Mode

Windows 10 truly does a good job of engaged on each tablets just like the Surface Pro and full desktop or laptop computer computer systems, however Windows 11 received’t embody a devoted mode for pill gadgets. nstead, this performance can be reconfigured, and a few of it’ll occur mechanically (like once you connect or detach a Bluetooth keyboard, for instance).

Cortana

Microsoft’s digital assistant isn’t getting pulled from Windows 11 fully, however it is going to be gone from the setup course of, and it’ll not be pinned to the taskbar. It’s unclear what Microsoft has deliberate for Cortana, however based mostly on the options which have been added to it over the past 12 months or so, it would get repositioned as a enterprise device.

Windows S Mode

This is one other function that isn’t utterly going away, however you’ll see much less of it: S Mode, which solely permits apps from the official Microsoft Store to be put in to be able to enhance efficiency and safety, is barely going to be an choice in Windows 11 Home version. At the second you will get Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro with S Mode enabled.

Skype

Skype will nonetheless be out there in Windows 11, however the brand new and up to date OS received’t embody it as an built-in element in the identical approach that Windows 10 does. That’s as a result of Microsoft is now centered on Teams as the reply to all of your communication wants, together with video—prepare for lots of tight Teams integrations within the last Windows 11 expertise.