TechnoFlash7560
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Windows 11 is now almost a 4 year old OS, Windows 10 is soon to hit its final EOL date.
Microsoft always supports 2 versions of Windows concurrently (the current one + the one released prior).
Hints of a new UI style for Windows have started surfacing in different places, firstly, with Windows CPC/NXT -- the Thin Client OS that runs on the 365 Link, although it lacks a proper desktop, it is clearly noticeable it looks different from standard W11, with a much rounder and more translucent UI.
And last week, build 26120.3281 for the dev channel brought this same rounder style to full desktop Windows, although only in the Recall/Click to Do apps for now.
I have reason to believe Microsoft is going to revamp the entire Windows UI with this new cleaner, rounder style borrowed from NXT/CPC.
Moreover, Zac Bowden said 25H2 is a new platform release as opposed to only an enablement package, which is really a technical way of saying its going to be a new OS.
The visual language departure from W11 will be so large it will warrant a new brand name instead of just being called the "Windows 11 2025 Update".
Soon the Dev channel should start testing builds from the se_release development branch, which should be the same 27xxx builds now being tested on Canary, but with new user-facing features combined, most likely the first of these new builds (dropping tomorrow or next week) will already include the rounder context menus for the whole OS.
And of course, MSFT can't just keep rehashing and reusing the Windows 11 name forever. At some point users and PC manufacturers will start getting anxious for something actually new. Just imagine, 40 years from now, "Windows 11 65H2" -- no... just no....
We'll see.
Microsoft always supports 2 versions of Windows concurrently (the current one + the one released prior).
Hints of a new UI style for Windows have started surfacing in different places, firstly, with Windows CPC/NXT -- the Thin Client OS that runs on the 365 Link, although it lacks a proper desktop, it is clearly noticeable it looks different from standard W11, with a much rounder and more translucent UI.
And last week, build 26120.3281 for the dev channel brought this same rounder style to full desktop Windows, although only in the Recall/Click to Do apps for now.
I have reason to believe Microsoft is going to revamp the entire Windows UI with this new cleaner, rounder style borrowed from NXT/CPC.
Moreover, Zac Bowden said 25H2 is a new platform release as opposed to only an enablement package, which is really a technical way of saying its going to be a new OS.
The visual language departure from W11 will be so large it will warrant a new brand name instead of just being called the "Windows 11 2025 Update".
Soon the Dev channel should start testing builds from the se_release development branch, which should be the same 27xxx builds now being tested on Canary, but with new user-facing features combined, most likely the first of these new builds (dropping tomorrow or next week) will already include the rounder context menus for the whole OS.
And of course, MSFT can't just keep rehashing and reusing the Windows 11 name forever. At some point users and PC manufacturers will start getting anxious for something actually new. Just imagine, 40 years from now, "Windows 11 65H2" -- no... just no....
We'll see.
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