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I...didn't think windows 12 was actually a thing but here we are?

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[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 75 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Lol. Remember when W10 was to be the "final" one?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The "10 year OS" that was 2015. Guess profits got in the way.

Oh and 10 didn't track you enough or put enough ads in the OS.

[–] patchymoose@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Well Windows 95 was 1995 and then we had (98,) 2000 so I imagine yes, we'll probably have Windows 95 followed by Windows (98) 3000!

[–] claymore@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago

Well, Win10 Home and Pro EOL is late 2025, so it's tecnically correct...

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

It wasn't the profits or ads that got in the way.

It was the security that got in the way. (remember the whole TPM module thing?)

Iterating the version number was just a convenient excuse to throw more ads, and tracking in.

[–] mcc@waveform.social 6 points 1 year ago

They meant it was going to be the final one worth installing

[–] Aurailious@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Apparently the source of that wasn't an official statement by Microsoft. It was some offhand comment in a dev conference that kind of got out of control.

[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Actually XP was supposed to be the last one. Service Packs were supposed to be the future of OS updates/upgrades.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

It might be for me. Not sure when I’ll refresh my hardware to something with TPM but I’m not feeling any rush.

[–] Ignacio@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The final one with the number 10, obviously.