Windows 12: AI, new UI, features, and everything else we know so far

[Windows Central]

We're already beginning to hear leaks and rumors about what the next version of Windows is going to include, and this article is rounding up everything we know so far.

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[naddy69]

"Windows 11's system requirements call for a PC running Intel 8th-generation or AMD Ryzen 2000 series and up CPUs. "

Don't forget the Arm CPUs that you were praising just a few weeks ago.

"It also requires a TPM, and a minimum of 4GB RAM. One report claims Microsoft might up the RAM requirement from 4GB to 8GB with this next release, but I've not been able to confirm this. "

While you can technically run Windows 11 in 4GB RAM, you can't really do very much. 8GB is already the practical minimum for Windows. And MacOS. And Linux.

 

[Arun Topez]

"The reason for this, I'm told, is that the new Windows leadership team are weary of further fragmenting the Windows userbase with new versions of the product. Right now, Windows 10 has around 1 billion users, and Windows 11 has around 400 million users. Introducing a "Windows 12" would further fragment this userbase..."
It sounds like the new leadership has the wrong way of thinking then. The issue isn't with the branding, it's with their over-complicated method of OS and update licensing and distribution. If Apple, Google and Linux can have simple major update branding, so can Microsoft. The issue is they treat their version number as the product name (which worked in the older days when the OS releases were every few years instead of yearly). They just need to follow what their competitors do - the product name should simply be "Windows" or "WindowsOS" and then "Windows 11", "Windows 12", etc. should be the yearly update name. That way all customers move together instead of being fragmented, and that way the only natural minor fragmentation that would occur is the update delay some enterprises choose to do. They also caused this Windows 10/11 fragmentation themselves by imposing that unnecessary spec requirement, not because of the branding.

 

[Jason Hendry]

For me i have loved all windows os and I've tried them all since 98 and 98 sebut 2 stand out. One is windows 8, it was a difficult and struggling for 4 months of learning and I really hated it at first. by 8.1 OK a built in dock. And was OK with it, windows 10 was great in so many wa ys and made me love like tiles even if the weren't working as they intended. But windows 11 carried over things I hated from Windows 10 a os I loved. X means close not minimise and it's still here. But windows 11 goes further. Refresh hidden under show more options alot of tims, basic things like background control panels and such hidden under show me more options lol. Widgets where the to do list is none existent or useless compared to the windows 10 calender tiles. And widgets packd are completely unimportant to me and I feel pushed on me, ev3n af5er 2 years i cant find us3ful widgets compared to the old tiled one.. I also get reminders to try edge with 2 options try now or remind d me later. Where is the button that says stop reminding me until I can open new tabs to my default home page. That home page on new tabs is something I wanted I. Edge since it's ceation and how many decades ago was that. The result is I don't use edge I have used opera and gotten used to opera I just don't see a future ever I. Edge now. And why. Well how basic is it to alow m3 to pick what I want and look at. I don't want a search pushing me to bing. 3dge is l9st to me because micr9sft tried to force me to use the browser their 2ay and not mine. It's that simple, at least be curious and put a button on saying don't remind me.
I wanted to say all this because windows 12 is a big thing to me. I'm 53 I have used a PC desktop since university in 1998, win 98,98se,2000 millennium, up, 7,8 8.1, 10 and didn't ever feel this way. But if windows 11 is not significantly closer to windows 10 and further away from windows 11 I'm either going Linux or yes my hated option apple. Windows 11 for me is horrible and I've had enough. I hope beg plea with microsft to make 12 a good one. Oh yes I though I loved forcing updates on users and it stopped alot of house visits to friends but when a big patch consistently prevents games that worked from working g and being unusable oj other software, it's time to rethink. Windows 11 needs to go backwards