News Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2

[Admin]

The next version of Windows is now confirmed to be Windows 11 25H2, and since it's built on the same codebase as its predecessors, it will install much faster on 24H2 systems.

Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2 : Read more

 

[coromonadalix]

aww nooo we dont get to be in troubles before .... sarcasm

 

[ekio]

Windows 12, 11, 10, 7, xp….

Whatever the version, in the end it is still, and always has been disgusting ms-DOS with NT patches on top.
Putting varnish on top or rotten meat doesn’t make it a healthy food.
This OS has rotten foundations and Microsoft will likely keep them for yet another 30 years, because all they do is doubling down on this engineering atrocity.

 

[LordVile]

Windows 12, 11, 10, 7, xp….

Whatever the version, in the end it is still, and always has been disgusting ms-DOS with NT patches on top.
Putting varnish on top or rotten meat doesn’t make it a healthy food.
This OS has rotten foundations and Microsoft will likely keep them for yet another 30 years, because all they do is doubling down on this engineering atrocity.

you forgot vista an 8 there bud

 

[Notton]

lipstick on a pig

 

[King_V]

I guess I wasn't paying attention, as, I only learned just now that there's a Windows 12 in the works.

 

[John_Turner]

Meanwhile Win10 is still periodically attempting to install a revision to the shell that causes File Corruption issues, leading to Microsoft rolling it back each time. This has happened at least 50 times in the past 7 years just on my equipment.
And now I'm expected to pay $200 per seat for the Win12 license? When all my Macs upgrade to a new OS for free?
Way to keep advancing the brand, Microsoft.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Just imagine if they finally relented in 25H2 and officially disabled the TPM 2.0 requirement...

 

[JeffreyP55]

Meanwhile Win10 is still periodically attempting to install a revision to the shell that causes File Corruption issues, leading to Microsoft rolling it back each time. This has happened at least 50 times in the past 7 years just on my equipment.
And now I'm expected to pay $200 per seat for the Win12 license? When all my Macs upgrade to a new OS for free?
Way to keep advancing the brand, Microsoft.

Apple has 10% of the market. Lacking unless you do A/V work. Maybe I'll breakout an old Amiga...

 

[ezst036]

After speculation about whether the next version of Windows would be Windows 12, .........

So basically its a non-story.

I have never seen (someone correct me if I'm wrong) Microsoft officially even state that there will be a Windows 12. Any mentions of it are pure speculation.

That being said, claiming that the release is pushed back a year is pure journalistic "can't prove us wrong!" type nonsense since nobody can know and independently check it out, and a Microsoft employee who does know couldn't say or else lose their job.

 

[jg.millirem]

Windows 12, 11, 10, 7, xp….

Whatever the version, in the end it is still, and always has been disgusting ms-DOS with NT patches on top.
Putting varnish on top or rotten meat doesn’t make it a healthy food.
This OS has rotten foundations and Microsoft will likely keep them for yet another 30 years, because all they do is doubling down on this engineering atrocity.

Who puts varnish on meat?

 

[SonoraTechnical]

The cadence and naming since Windows 10 is confusing to people... It's hard to explain to users that they are actually two very different versions of Windows 10 in wide distribution...

It would have been so much easier for users had Microsoft just had Windows 10, Windows 10.1, Windows 10.5, Windows 11, Windows 11.1, Windows 11.5... Windows 12.... See a pattern? Folks understand that these are very different... and you don' t rolll Windows 10.5 stuff into Windows 10.1... you just encourage the users to buy an upgrade.

They've confused people... there is incompatability where people least expect it (look at the way SQL drivers were completely handled differently between early Windows 10 and later Windows 10).. They've also left money on the table, becuase frankly, folks have generally been okay with upgrading thier windows to a minor version every other year and a major version every 4 for a modest sum...

 

[USAFRet]

....you just encourage the users to buy an upgrade.

The vast majority of people do not "buy" an upgrade.

Either their current Windows version upgrades to the next, for free. Has been this way for a decade, with Win 10.
Or, they just use whatever comes with their new PC.

 

[LKeels]

Ridiculous headline and story. Nothing has been "pushed back". Windows 12 hasn't even been formally announced, let alone scheduled.

 

[spongiemaster]

Windows 12, 11, 10, 7, xp….

Whatever the version, in the end it is still, and always has been disgusting ms-DOS with NT patches on top.
Putting varnish on top or rotten meat doesn’t make it a healthy food.
This OS has rotten foundations and Microsoft will likely keep them for yet another 30 years, because all they do is doubling down on this engineering atrocity.

Windows NT is not based on MSDOS, and every version you listed is based on NT. Windows stopped being based on MSDOS when Windows Me died killing off the 9x line.

 

[TerryLaze]

Who puts varnish on meat?

They honey glaze everything...and probably hundreds of other glazes nobody knows the names of.
Sure varnish is specific for woodwork but come on, same thing, make it shiny.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

Windows NT is not based on MSDOS, and every version you listed is based on NT. Windows stopped being based on MSDOS when Windows Me died killing off the 9x line.

Wait, Windows Me was alive at one point?

Always seemed dead on arrival to me.

 

[USAFRet]

Wait, Windows Me was alive at one point?

Always seemed dead on arrival to me.

In my pile of laptops in the garage, I have one that originally came with WinMe.
Toshiba...insanely good/large screen for the period.

WinMe soon replaced with Win2k.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

Windows 12, 11, 10, 7, xp….

This OS has rotten foundations and Microsoft will likely keep them for yet another 30 years, because all they do is doubling down on this engineering atrocity.

Keep in mind that Windows has become to Microsoft what Youtube is to Google. Windows is now an advertising, spam and bloatware platform for Microsoft which generates revenue for them. It is why it should be given away for free.

The day that Linux becomes a viable gaming platform is the day I will leave Windows. Unfortunately we are not there yet as the games I play are not on Linux.

 

[CelicaGT]

"The update will install much faster than 24H2"

Considering it took me three days to get 24H2 to properly update a couple systems I sure fricking hope so. The only thing less reliable than Windows updates lately has been NVIDIA driver updates..

(In defence of 24H2 once I got it installed it did fix several issues I had been having on one of my systems. These were hybrid graphics related.)

 

[blppt]

The day that Linux becomes a viable gaming platform is the day I will leave Windows. Unfortunately we are not there yet as the games I play are not on Linux.

You'd be surprised at how many games run on Linux through proton and pretty darned well. Heck, I've even run trainers successfully WITH games (offline only of course).

 

[Cainproton]

This reminds me that I should really upgrade from windows 10.

 

[randomizer]

This reminds me that I should really upgrade from windows 10.

I keep getting reminded but have no desire to do it.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

You'd be surprised at how many games run on Linux through proton and pretty darned well. Heck, I've even run trainers successfully WITH games (offline only of course).

I'm not surprised at all. Its that Linux doesn't run the particular games that I play.

 

[blppt]

Guessing the ones with anti-cheat kernel drivers?