

In November, however, a certificate problem took down several major features of Windows 11 in S Mode, including the Start menu. Microsoft shipped the Surface Laptop Go with Windows 10 in S Mode, and Microsoft told us in September that it would ship a version of Windows 11 in S Mode, too. Otherwise, the most significant change for the Surface Laptop Go 2 is its use of either Windows 11 Home, available in the consumer version of the Surface Laptop Go 2, or either Windows 11 Pro or Windows 10 Pro, offered as part of the Surface Laptop Go 2 for Business. The Windows Hello embedded fingerprint reader worked well on the Surface Laptop Go, and we’d expect it to do the same in the Surface Laptop Go 2.
