Windows 11 New Features
While you might be tempted to put off your Windows 11 transition till 14th October 2025, the reality is that in doing so, you’re closing the door to many helpful productivity-boosting tools and features – and, in turn, giving your competitors a significant advantage over you.
However, making use of these many features NOW keeps you in a position to maintain your competitive edge. So, considering you’ll likely be using these soon anyway, what’s the use in letting yourself lag behind?
Your convenience is at the foundation of Windows 11’s design, with features purpose-built to make productivity easy. For evidence of this you need look no further than the simplified Start Menu; and the more central focus on the Taskbar - which streamlines navigation by keeping your pinned apps, recent files, and essential functions right at your fingertips.
How Windows 11 Makes Working Easier
Windows 11 Productivity Functions
Now you have access to taskbars and widgets setting the stage for greater productivity… but how does Windows 11 take a more active role in boosting your output?
- Interruption-Proofed Productivity
- Accurate Screen Sharing
- Catch Every Interaction
- Easy Video Production
Interruption-Proofed Productivity
Ever had a task that required working between two, three, or four different apps at once, only for you to be interrupted with a different task halfway through?
Windows 11’s ‘Snap Layouts’ allow you to save specific window formations - so that when you’re done dealing with interruptions, you can quickly redeploy them at the touch of a button. When it’s time to pick up where you left off, don’t waste your valuable time re-assembling your window layouts: quickly snap them back into place instead!
Accurate Screen Sharing
When communicating with team members, screenshots are a valuable tool. However, most screenshots often require editing down to avoid showing certain information, meaning unnecessary time being spent - unless you download a third-party Snipping Tool, which comes with an inherent share of risks.
On the other hand, Windows 11 comes with its own built-in Snipping Tool and Screen Recorder – allowing you to accurately single out and capture the specific content you want to share with your teams; quickly, cleanly, and above all, safely.
Catch Every Interaction
Having to switch between separate tasks on a PC and phone is a recipe for disrupted concentration and slowed productivity, especially if calls are coming in from one source when you’re working on the other.
For an elegant solution, Windows 11 allows you to link your business PC and phone in just three easy steps – housing your PC apps along with your incoming calls, messages, and texts on a single screen. This gives you the freedom to devote your full focus to tasks, but without having to worry about missing important correspondence from clients or colleagues.
Easy Video Production
When it comes to elevating your social media content, nothing is quite as accessible, expedient, or attractive as video - but making high-quality video content often requires access to specialist talent, as well as expensive specialist software. While these things still have their place, the investment of time and budget to secure them can often be a barrier to what SMEs require.
Windows 11 comes with its own AI-powered video editor and creation app, Clipchamp – allowing SMEs to create videos without needing to sink budget into sourcing top-line software or talent.
Windows 11 Enhanced Performance
If your employees are working while on the move or rushing between meetings, they won’t always have ready access to energy outlets – meaning their productivity is dependent on the life of their battery. This problem is further compounded if they’re also dealing with large datasets or complex workloads, which will negatively impact their PC performance.
New Security Features in Windows 11
Safer remote work is the main reason to move over from Windows 10 to Windows 11 – and though a large component of this safety comes from ongoing access to free security patches, it’s far from the only cyber safety feature that Windows 11 has at its disposal.
Built-In Security
Malware and viruses have a much harder time tampering with devices that run Windows 11, due to it being supported by a physical processor called TPM 2.0. Standard in most PCs built after 2016, this processor will detect if access has originated from an unrecognised source and prevent the device from starting, protecting your critical files from malicious cyberattacks.
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Go Password Free
Are you and your employees tired of the hassle that comes with password protection? Coupling convenience with stronger security, Windows 11 offers a selection of alternative identity authentication methods though the Windows Hello feature, including facial recognition, fingerprints, PIN codes, or passkeys.
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Always-On Protection
Providing an extra layer of cyber-protection for your remote workers, the always-up-to-date Microsoft Defender comes as standard with Windows 11 – and continuously scans your PCs for any signs of malicious malware, while also protecting your network and internet connections.
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Trusted Software Only
Activating new software applications? Windows 11’s combination of Secure Boot and Smart App Control features automatically check any new software against a database of trusted and certified sources, while also scanning for malicious code without giving it access to your critical systems. If something’s not right with a new program or app, they won’t be allowed to run.
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Making the Most of Windows 11 New Features with Apogee
Adopting Windows 11 comes with its own share of concerns, especially if you’re buying your new devices outright. For such an expense, how do you know that you’re getting the most out of all of these features?
- A Low-Risk Transition to Windows 11
- A Roadmap to Stronger Security
- More Defences for your Network Perimeter
- Automation-Aided Productivity
- Enabling Continuous Collaboration
- Clear Hybrid Communication
A Low-Risk Transition to Windows 11
Rather than purchasing them directly, sourcing your new devices through a Managed IT Service gives you access to all these features - but on a cost-effective support plan. With Apogee’s industry-leading support providing you with a constant safety net, you’re able to maximise the amount of time that your employees (and by extension, your business) have to benefit from Windows 11’s many productivity boosting features.
By using this service you gain access to years of collective expertise, ensuring the smoothest transition to Windows 11 possible, the first time – and with a convenient point of contact in case additional support is required.
A Roadmap to Stronger Security
Though Windows 11 comes with a whole host of features designed to bolster your cyber security, they don’t make your business completely cyber-secure in of themselves. To help you identify remaining gaps in your security and recommend effective solutions, our Cyber Security Services are on-hand to provide you with one-off consultancy, ongoing guidance, or even full management of your cyber security infrastructure on your behalf.
More Defences for your Network Perimeter
Windows 11 features open the door to safer hybrid productivity, but it never hurts to have another line of security for your remote workforce. IT Network Services make your network performance and security our responsibility – and with an active monitoring and alerting system in place for your firewalls, switches, routers, and edge security, you minimise the threat of cyberattacks one step closer to zero.
Automation-Aided Productivity
Enabling greater productivity amongst your workforce is an invaluable benefit of Windows 11, but how do you know if this increased output is being used as effectively as it could be? Making use of Business Process Automation allows you to automate simple, yet time-consuming tasks, improving data accuracy while also giving your teams the freedom to repurpose their employee hours more strategically.
Enabling Continuous Collaboration
Windows 11 improves security and productivity for your individual remote workers, so how do you do the same for the systems they collaborate on? By migrating your shared servers to a Cloud platform, you maximise continuous, reliable access to the files your remote workers need – since Cloud providers must take every measure they can to ensure that their servers are constantly operational and up-to-date with security regulations.
Clear Hybrid Communication
With Windows 11 allowing you to capitalise on the advantages of hybrid working, ensuring clear communication between your office and home-based teams is absolutely critical. A Meeting Room Equipment service helps you to bridge the gap, with high-quality audio-visual setups that keep communication easy and effective.
FAQs
Windows 11 Resources
Learn more with our Windows 11 transition FAQ pages:
Getting Ready for Windows 11
End of Life (EOL) Windows 10
How to Upgrade to Windows 11
Windows 10 vs Windows 11
Windows 11 Versions
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