News Windows Reportedly Entering Three-Year Development Cycles

[Admin]

Microsoft is reportedly moving development of its Windows OS towards a three-year development cycle. Major releases would fall within this time-scale, peppered throughout with smaller, feature-focussed releases.

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[USAFRet]

"This would place Microsoft's next major OS revamp (word of mouth codenames it the "Next Valley" OS) sometime within 2024 "

So would this be 'Windows 12', or are they going back to the concept of just calling it "Windows" ?

 

[ThatMouse]

My Explorer.exe is replaced by a freeware app (ExplorerPatcher) developed by one dude, and similarly File Explorer is replaced by Total Commander. The Microsoft Store is still hated by everyone. But keep trying with those "features" Microsoft.

 

[hotaru251]

only win updates i will actually care about:

No longer forcing me to update (im tech savvy and will update patches for issues but i dont want EVERY update as a lot of it is bloat or not used)

Giving option to get rid of win11 start menu and go back to a normal one (really loathe them for making 8 and 11 be 2nd class to tablet/android look -.-)

 

[Eximo]

only win updates i will actually care about:

No longer forcing me to update (im tech savvy and will update patches for issues but i dont want EVERY update as a lot of it is bloat or not used)

Giving option to get rid of win11 start menu and go back to a normal one (really loathe them for making 8 and 11 be 2nd class to tablet/android look -.-)

It's all a conspiracy to correct left side preference! When was the last time you remember noticing an advertisement on the right side of the screen! Fetch me my tinfoil hat! We'll take this all the way to Pentaverate!

 

[missingxtension]

Finally back to actually tested release cycles. The stupid Android and Apple (the metoos, copycats) release schedules are soo stupid. Those rolling releases and repository systems can only work on Open source OSes that are continually worked on, like Darwin or Debían. They managed to ruin the rolling release cycle by forcing upgrades to hardware (with closed hardware) and locking repositories. You want root, no nfc for you.

 

[USAFRet]

No longer forcing me to update (im tech savvy and will update patches for issues

That is a losing battle.
Windows used to be that way, pre WIn 10.

Result?
Massive botnets and virus.

You are tech savvy...I am tech savvy.
Far too many people are not. And they share the internet with the rest of us.

 

[XaveT]

I smell corporate greed...

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They won't actually test or do anything better, they just have to throw less resources at it since they've managed to push a lot of businesses to the M365 plans. It's all about promising the moon, jacking up the price, then paring back features/speed. That pace was untenable, but we didn't really have a choice but to go to M365 in Enterprise.

Well done, Microsoft, you pile of rancid garbage, well done.

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