Tiny11 is a stripped-down version of Windows 11. Where the full-fat OS requires 4GB of RAM and 64GB of drive space, Tiny11 can manage with 2GB and 8GB respectively. It looks like the perfect solution for older machines that fall short of Windows 11’s specs as, in the developer’s words, it will run on “basically any computer that also ran Windows 10”.
That might leave you wondering why Microsoft, with all of its resources, didn’t manage the same. The answer is most likely that Microsoft didn’t want to: its goal was to ship a feature-rich operating system that was a genuine step up from Windows 10, rather than a minimized working environment.