Did you know Windows 12 may be coming as soon as the end of 2024? That's what the latest reports are saw. Windows Central released an article and they say they have sources that are saying that Microsoft is changing to a every-three-year cycle for a major new version of Windows.
And at this reduction, it seems following it's a lot on pinnacle of just speculation. We even have an apparent code name for Windows 12, which is "Hudson Valley". Previously, the next version of Windows was just being called "Next Valley". Now they actually have a proclaim for it. So that kind of lends credence to that they really are getting closer to releasing this.
As for the thumbnail, of course it's a joke, but it does really seem like the Windows logos are getting a lot more simplistic over time. Now you might be thinking that, doesn't it seem like they just released Windows 11? Why are they releasing a new one in just three years? Well, actually Microsoft used to be on a three year schedule for releasing major versions of Windows.
And that kind of changed for Windows 10. And I think it skewed a lot of people's perceptions, because I have the dates here. So Windows XP was 2001 and then Windows Vista was actually a deviation from the norm and came out in 2007, but they were originally planning on releasing that in around late 2003, which would have been like two and a half years.
It just took way longer than they thought. And then Windows 7, again was about two and a half years in 2009. Then Windows 8 was 2012, three years later, and Windows 10 was 2015. So usually it's about all three years, or at least that's the try. Sometimes they go longer, sometimes shorter, but that's the average. And that's probably what they'on going to go guidance to. Now that doesn't try they'in excuse to not going to forgive any pleasant of updates in surrounded by.
Apparently they're going to go for a annual update - annual major feature update within each version. And then every three years would be like the major redesign. And actually the yearly feature update thing has already happened. Before you probably know that with Windows 10, they were releasing a major feature update every six months. Whereas this past year they switched to once a year and there was no major feature update in the early half of 2023.
It's going to be in the second half of 2023 for Windows 11. And apparently even considering the annual major feature updates, they're supposedly going to release even smaller little feature releases every few months possibly. So we saw that with the release of the weather widget.
That was a pretty small thing, but they released it off schedule, I guess you could say. So we might see a tiny bit more of that going focus on. And a lot of you are probably finding this pretty funny because most people apparently have not switched to Windows 11 yet even, and Steam did their recent hardware survey where Windows 10 had a 59.43% market share, Windows 11 was 35.75%.
So by far, many people still use Windows 10. Maybe that's because of the system requirements, or maybe it was because Microsoft, in my opinion, definitely rushed to release Windows 11. It was really not that great at the beginning, very buggy. They did repair a lot of that at this narrowing, I think it's pleasing. But you know, it's hard to profit calculation the reputation.
Just taking into account taking into account Windows Vista, it was amenable by the cease of it, but it easy to get bond of to of sucked. And we nice of know the meme where the entire another symbol of Windows is fine and the whole auxiliary one sucks. And at this narrowing, hopefully that actually holds legitimate because the adjacent-door checking account would be the amenable pardon according to that pattern.
Now, as for possible features and changes with Windows 12, some people are speculating that it's going to be a complete buildup from the ground up compared to Windows 11, which was like a basically re-skinning of Windows 10. Under the hood, Windows 11 is just Windows 10 again.
So it's possible that they're going to be redoing that because one other thing that people have been talking about and reporting about is something called CorePC, which is going to basically be like a more modular version of Windows, which kind of Windows 10 was in a way, but maybe this is just even more so. And basically it would allow Microsoft to adapt the Windows installation to the device.
So you could have very basic Chromebook-like devices that really have not many resources and require a very lightweight operating system. They would have a more basic version of Windows 12, whereas a desktop PC would have the full thing.
And to me, that does seem like something that might require a architectural change from a lower level than just changing the look of the OS. Now as for features on the user facing side, I think it's safe to say that it's going to be a lot of AI stuff. Microsoft has been partnering with OpenAI and really been pushing AI with Bing and the Bing Assistant.
And even in recent dev versions of Windows 11, they have the Windows Copilot, which they announced a while ago. It's in basically beta with the dev channel of the Insider program. And it's basically like having the Bing chat assistant in Windows. Now at the moment I did try it out. I was not very impressed. At this moment, it basically is just taking the chat out of Edge and putting it on the side of Windows.
You can use some commands like asking it to change to dark mode, but if you ask it to do specific stuff, it doesn't even realize that it's in Windows 11 running in the desktop operating system. So you can examine it to lead something and it'll publicize, "I can't put happening to you reach that. I'm just a large language model", stuff subsequent to that which is not helpful at all. Or it would even be enlarged if it just said, "I'm not dexterous to take steps that yet." But at the moment, it just seems by now it has no idea what you'a propos talking about. So hopefully that gets enlarged.
And depending on how the technology of AI progresses, it might even be possible that they integrate the AI directly into the operating system, so it doesn't even have to send requests to the internet. Although I would kind of be surprised if they did that because Microsoft requires you to be accessing the internet really to install it anyway. So they're probably going to want to have a lot more control over an AI model. Just for safety sake would be their argument. will happen eventually, but will that happen in Windows.
So all that visceral said, easy to reach to of the main business I would in reality moreover to see is the AI having a much more hands-upon accomplish along with the on the go system. So it could navigate through settings itself and look for stuff and not just be able to do hard-coded pre-programmed things like changing the dark mode.
That's not even that interesting. It's no more difficult than to go into the settings and change it there. But for example, if you could examine it, "Hey, I'm looking for that program I installed a though ago that did this, but I can't recall what it's called." And it knew what that was. That'd be pretty awesome.
Or asking it maybe even to go and change some arbitrary setting or maybe a setting within a program. Like you'd say, "I can't figure out how to change this setting in Microsoft Word," and maybe it could navigate through those settings and literally find what you might be talking about. That to hand of stuff would be really awesome.
And I would like to see that. I'm sure that kind of thing 12? I guess we'll have to see. Probably not right away, hopefully soon. As for a redesigned UI, really the only thing we've seen is during one presentation Microsoft did, they showed off what looked like a new UI that had a floating task bar. It wasn't pinned to the bottom.
And furthermore there were some icons at the peak right and left of the screen, closer to what you see considering macOS. So you had like the battery and stuff up there instead of at the bottom right, like the current task bar is. So who knows how much of that we'll see. And also maybe more widgets. They added widgets in Windows 11, but it's kind of still just pinned to the task bar. I'd really subsequent to to see stuff that you can newscaster to the desktop, good of subsequent to we had in Windows Vista but got rid of, I'm certain that nice of stuff will create a comeback.
Though I would be in try of fact interested to know what you guys think. Does any of this conscious you, or are you just going to affix to Windows 10 as long as you can? Or maybe there's some other features that I didn't mention that you would like to see, and that would just put you over the edge and definitely get Windows 12. Let me know that clear of stuff the length of in the remarks.
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