- A brand new ‘Migration’ function has been discovered by digging round within the inside workings of Home windows 11
- It’s a part of the Backup app and permits for a wi-fi switch of all of your recordsdata and settings from an outdated PC to a brand new one
- The concept is to make use of Close by Sharing, with each PCs in shut proximity and on the identical Wi-Fi community
Microsoft is seemingly engaged on a technique to make it simpler for Home windows 11 customers to make the transfer from an outdated PC to a brand new pc that’s simply been bought (or constructed).
This can be a ‘Migration’ app which is purportedly a part of Home windows 11’s current Backup app, and can switch all of your recordsdata and settings throughout wirelessly from the outdated PC to the brand new one, offering the gadgets are in shut proximity.
There are just a few folks to credit score for recognizing this through a latest Home windows 11 preview construct, as reported by Home windows Newest, who observed Dongle, an X consumer, had flagged up the function within the beneath put up.
Migration app, construct 22635.4945 (UI reconstruction)Courtesy of @phantomofearth for locating the function and @AhmedWalid605 for offering the decompiler.1/4 pic.twitter.com/XdGRvpdJgdFebruary 17, 2025
Dongle additional credit common leaker PhantomOfEarth on X for digging round and uncovering stated function, and in addition AhmedWalid605 for offering the decompiler used to reconstruct what this new function would possibly appear like (primarily based on the interface clues discovered by PhantomOfEarth within the preview construct).
The screenshots of the Migration app within the X put up are mocked-up by Dongle (a greatest guess of what it’d appear like), however the performance is right going by the clues dug up from the inside workings of Home windows 11.
As famous, the switch of recordsdata occurs wirelessly, and Dongle guesses that the function would possibly use Close by Sharing, which is basically Microsoft’s tackle AirDrop, requiring each machines to be on the identical Wi-Fi community, and close to to one another.
Evaluation: A sound and useful various to a cloudy path
Do not forget that what’s introduced on this X put up is only a mock-up and so the tip model of Migration might look (or work) very in a different way. Certainly, as a result of that is simply code buried in Home windows 11 and never even enabled in testing but, it’s potential this can be a functionality Microsoft is toying with, however might but abandon. In brief, don’t get your hopes up an excessive amount of.
In concept, although, the Migration function is a sound thought and plugs a niche within the current performance that the Backup app delivers. Backup already gives a technique to switch your outdated PC information over to a brand new system, however that’s facilitated through the cloud (recordsdata are uploaded to OneDrive to make the backup, which is then extracted from the cloud and onto the brand new PC at setup).
The difficulty is that in the event you’re taking a look at a hefty Home windows 11 set up, and a ton of recordsdata, that may very well be sluggish to obtain from the cloud – particularly in the event you don’t have an honest web connection. Or certainly it’s possible you’ll not have sufficient cloud storage house on OneDrive within the first place.
Clearly, there are situations the place the cloud is a less-than-ideal answer, so the thought with Migration is to facilitate an area switch that doesn’t want something apart from each PCs being subsequent to one another (and with the ability to hook up with the identical native Wi-Fi community). That’s going to be a handy and helpful choice to have for a very good few of us, I’d think about.
As Window Newest observes, the hope is that Migration may also cater for third-party apps (and never simply Microsoft Retailer apps, as with Backup), which might be a extremely nifty addition. Fingers crossed on that entrance, although I wouldn’t place any bets.
There are, after all, different choices for migrating your stuff from one PC to a different apart from Microsoft’s official strategies included in Home windows 11.
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