I…didn’t think windows 12 was actually a thing but here we are?

  • patchymoose
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    1 year ago

    This is just my own take, but I feel like at least part of the reason they went back to releasing new versions is because of the recent resurgence of macOS. Not only do Macs have the excitement of Apple Silicon, but they have annual “new” OS releases; even if not much has changed, it creates excitement with their fanbase. I think Microsoft realized that it’s not very exciting to just be on Windows 10 forever. So we got Windows 11.

    • Tywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I think that Windows 11 is just a name and even if they hadn’t named it that we would have gotten the same features as an update in Windows 10. Windows 11 is nothing more than an update. And Windows 12 probably won’t be much different. Increasing the number version of Windows looks much better to the average user.

      • gus@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Makes you wonder if they’re going to just start implementing the version number on every update, sorta like Chrome does these days. Will we see another Windows 95 eventually?

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      1 year ago

      Well I mean the windows 10 forever was basically a try at copying what Apple do with osx.

    • Phantom_Engineer
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      1 year ago

      I don’t want an exciting OS, though. I want one that’s practical, effective, reasonably easy to use, that runs all the programs I need to run, and won’t shove stuff in my face unnecessarily.

      Right now I’m dual-booting Win 10 and Ubuntu. I don’t plan to “upgrade” from Windows 10 anytime soon. Ideally, as time goes on I’ll be able to use Windows less and less until I eventually phase it out.