Windows 12 could arrive in 2024

Microsoft is making a big change with Windows, switching to a new plan of introducing a fresh incarnation of the desktop operating system every three years, with smaller and more regular feature updates in-between. The move to a new engineering schedule is a rumor floated by Zac Bowden of Windows Central (opens in new tab), who is well-connected at Microsoft, and has offered up reliable leakage in the past. The Prime Day deals are still running – see what’s still hot to buyAs mentioned, the theory of what’s happening in the future is that Windows will have a three-year release cycle, and as Windows 11 emerged in 2021, that’ll mean an all-new Windows – possibly Windows 12, maybe something entirely different – arriving in 2024 (Windows 24? Windows XXIV? WindowsOS, ahem?).

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