Windows 11 S Official

For the general enthusiast reading this article, you will likely want to switch out of S Mode within the first hour of ownership. That is fine—Microsoft expects that.

However, for the millions of users who only need a browser, email, and Netflix, S Mode offers a cleaner, faster, and infinitely safer version of Windows than the open wild west of standard .exe files. windows 11 s

When your PC is running Windows 11 in S Mode, it can . Furthermore, it forces you to use Microsoft Edge as your default browser and Bing as the default search engine. You cannot change these defaults through normal settings. For the general enthusiast reading this article, you