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Where is Windows 12?
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Microsoft seems happy to stick with Windows 11, for now.
Microsoft seems happy to stick with Windows 11, for now.
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While I wasn’t expecting Microsoft to announce Windows 12 during its RTX Spark launch event last month, more than a few people were hoping to see something truly new. Between the growing frustration with Windows 11 and the muted response to Copilot Plus PCs, it’s starting to feel like Microsoft needs to go bigger with its desktop OS.
Much of this year’s Windows development has been focused on underlying performance improvements, after Microsoft acknowledged the bloat and reliability issues with Windows 11 and created a plan to fix them. That work is ongoing, and sources tell me there’s now a big focus on quality for the next major release of Windows 11 in 2027.
Microsoft started planning to shift back to a three-year release cycle for Windows in 2022, with the first big release in 2024. At the time, many expected that to be Windows 12, but the company stuck to a major update of Windows 11 instead. Now that the three-year cycle is about to hit again, it looks like Microsoft is promising to improve Windows 11 instead of rolling new features and underlying improvements into a Windows 12 release.