Why in the name of heaven are they working on Windows 12 when 11 has only been going for a short time?? It doesn't make sense to me that also they are supporting Windows 10 until 2025 as well. There seems to me and I am not that savvy really to be Microsoft going soft in the head.
Can someone tell me just what the rationale is??
Of course, I don't speak for Microsoft . . . whyever would I want that headache! But, I'll give you my take on the situation.
1. If there
should be a Windows 12, I'm betting it wouldn't show up until somewhere around 2025.
2. Windows 11 has been released and I guess we should get used to it. I believe by removing options, Microsoft thinks Windows will be tighter and less open to hacking. Ha! We/they wish! Look what's already been done regarding the Taskbar! We end users are nothing, if not resilient! And we're the "good guys"!
3. Extending Windows 10 to October 14, 2025 is a public relations policy in my not so humble opinion. Microsoft realizes that not everyone can afford to update/replace their current hardware for running Windows 11, so to avoid negative public opinion as much as possible, they extended the life of Windows 10.
4. Scuttlebutt has it that Microsoft said Windows 10 was their last operating system. Well, it was the last one released, but not the last, as we now know. Jerry Nixon's "announcement" can be taken at face value (and has been) or it can be interpreted as (the last version so far). Maybe he should have said "latest" instead of "last". At any rate, here's his statement:
"Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10."
That was the message from Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist speaking at the company's Ignite conference. Nixon was explaining how Microsoft was launching Windows 8.1 last year, but in the background it was developing Windows 10.
Which brings us full circle . . . Once a new version of Windows is released, it's apparent that Microsoft is busily starting on the next "last" version of Windows.
