MUCH-AWAITED WINDOWS 12 MAY BE UNVEILED BY MICROSOFT IN 2024

Sun 17 July 2022:

Microsoft is revising its Windows update schedule once more. Last year, the company promised massive feature updates once a year. It is now proposed that Windows will receive a major release every three years, with smaller seasonal feature updates throughout the year. That could imply that Windows 12 will be the next major release.

Three years after the initial release of Windows 11, the next significant release is reportedly planned for 2024.

Microsoft is shifting back to a three-year release cycle for Windows, which means the next major version of Windows is now due in 2024. It is another big change to how Microsoft develops Windows, reports The Verge.

The company initially moved away from its three-year cycle with the release of Windows 10 in 2015, prioritising the idea of Windows as a service.

Instead of a significant release of features every three years in a new Windows release, Windows 10 was updated twice a year with big new features.

For years, many Windows watchers thought Windows 10 would be the last big bang release of Windows after a Microsoft employee described Windows 10 as “the last version of Windows,” citing Windows Central, the report said.

The tech giant never dismissed those comments and instead said at the time they were “reflective of the way Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner”.

That changed with Windows 11 last year, and Microsoft moved to an annual update cadence for both 10 and 11.

According to the Windows Central report, the status of the 2024 release of Windows is pretty much unknown, except that is apparently in the early planning and engineering phase, and folks within the company are calling it “Next Valley” when speaking about it internally.

Alongside the next version of Windows in 2024, Microsoft still has plans to keep Windows 11 fresh in the years ahead. The software maker has been moving away from its original promise of big annual updates for Windows 11 in recent months, preferring to ship major features once they are ready.

The following major update, 22H2, was recently finalized by Microsoft and is currently anticipated to launch in September or October.

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