Windows 12 Coming Soon

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According to a report from WindowsCentral, Microsoft is shifting its engineering schedule so that a "major" Windows release will be delivered every three years. That could mean that Windows 12, or whatever Microsoft decides to call the next iteration of Windows, will arrive as soon as 2024. The report claims the new version of windows is currently being referred to as "Next Valley," seemingly a temporary name as Microsoft continues to evaluate what the 2024 release will actually contain.


Thoughts?
 
I hope the desktop version of Windows 12 user interface will be more similar to older desktop OS like Windows 7 which is designed to be mostly used with keyboard and mouse, and Windows 7 did not look like a mobile operating system like Windows 8/8.1.

Hopefully, Windows 12 will also be lightweight by using less RAM, storage space, and CPU resources, so it can be installed on slower and cheaper computers.
 
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Meh too many version of windows already. I just need the Direct X for gaming lol.
 
Feels like I just got Windows 11 this year. How much of this is actually useful for the average person?
 
Demon_Skeith said:
I remember the Vista and 8 hate, but not 7.
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The 7 hate was because a lot of the XP fans hoped 7 was going to revert all of the changes to be XP 2.0, it instead was Vista 2.0.

A ton of people hated the adjustments made between XP and Vista/7 to folder structures and where things installed, and many other things. Most retrospectives tend to leave this part out, as this pissed off power users to no end.

If you dig around for contemporary forum posts, you’ll see how much people were bitching about 7. It’s like how a lot of people already forgot how 10 was also hated when it launched. Evident how people forgot about the privacy issues when they wined about 11.
 
Can't even get Windows 11 on some devices that could definitely run it. Hope they don't have stupid requirements for W12
 
Ash said:
Can't even get Windows 11 on some devices that could definitely run it. Hope they don't have stupid requirements for W12
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Tbh trusted platform modules do a lot, so it’s not as arbitrary of a requirement as people like to mislead. It could also be a setting that can be turned on in your bios, but it wasn’t on by default, and the Microsoft verification checker doesn’t tell you that you need to do that.

It’s not like they’re prohibiting you from upgrading the OS if you don’t have a USB type C port.
 
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The 7 hate was because a lot of the XP fans hoped 7 was going to revert all of the changes to be XP 2.0, it instead was Vista 2.0.

A ton of people hated the adjustments made between XP and Vista/7 to folder structures and where things installed, and many other things. Most retrospectives tend to leave this part out, as this pissed off power users to no end.

If you dig around for contemporary forum posts, you’ll see how much people were bitching about 7. It’s like how a lot of people already forgot how 10 was also hated when it launched. Evident how people forgot about the privacy issues when they wined about 11.
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Lol, I was about to say it had to be the Windows XP lovers making a final stand.

Ash said:
Can't even get Windows 11 on some devices that could definitely run it. Hope they don't have stupid requirements for W12
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It would still have the same requirements as required by W11, hopefully nothing more.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
Lol, I was about to say it had to be the Windows XP lovers making a final stand.
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Tbh they weren’t wrong over Vista and 7 being very similar to each other. Especially after Service Pack 1 for Vista. 7 was contemporarily viewed as what 8.1 actually was to 8. Even the Vista fans saw it as pointless because of the similarities.

In regards to your comment about XP fans last stand, you have to remember than XP was supported until 2014… the year before Windows 10 launched.

For awhile, people primarily whine about UI changes, so I understood the annoyance for XP power users for changing the folder structure pretty drastically. Imagine trying to edit files for software and you’re going off muscle memory and those folders are either in different locations, or split into other places. The local and roaming folders in the hidden appsdata folder didn’t exist, and why are there two folders for programs?

Now people are whining that the start menu got moved to near the center seems trivial compared to hunting down where your config files got split up at.
 
Grungie said:
Tbh they weren’t wrong over Vista and 7 being very similar to each other. Especially after Service Pack 1 for Vista. 7 was contemporarily viewed as what 8.1 actually was to 8. Even the Vista fans saw it as pointless because of the similarities.

In regards to your comment about XP fans last stand, you have to remember than XP was supported until 2014… the year before Windows 10 launched.

For awhile, people primarily whine about UI changes, so I understood the annoyance for XP power users for changing the folder structure pretty drastically. Imagine trying to edit files for software and you’re going off muscle memory and those folders are either in different locations, or split into other places. The local and roaming folders in the hidden appsdata folder didn’t exist, and why are there two folders for programs?

Now people are whining that the start menu got moved to near the center seems trivial compared to hunting down where your config files got split up at.
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I'm aware, I'm already seeing muscle memory issues when setting up a W11 pc compared to W10.
 
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