Reports have indicated that Microsoft is planning to release a new Windows version every three years like it was in the times of Windows Vista and Windows 7. However, Microsoft doesn’t want Windows 11 to become boring or unexciting. Microsoft wants to keep Windows 11 constantly updated with “Moment” and some “feature” updates.
Microsoft has reportedly scrapped the original Sun Valley 3 project and Windows 11 will receive Windows 11 23H2 based on the existing version 22H2, similar to enablement package updates for Windows 10. Microsoft wants to release a new Windows in 2024 (Windows 12? We don’t know yet).
Version. Moment updates. Feature updates. Enablement package updates. 22H2 and 23H2. Cumulative updates. Main development channel. Windows 11 2022 Update. Windows 11 Build 25262.
But sure, I am the idiot for not being able to keep track of this nomenclature diarrhea.
@Thom
In fairness to the coders, engineers and developers, who in my experience generally love seeing their solutions and inventions put to immediate use. It is probably the marketing, advertising, sales and media divisions that formulate those strategies and definitions.
Yeah, the same applies with other operating systems. I don’t understand why the contacts app on my pixel 4a gets an update every week or so.
I have two words for the programming industry: “Slow Down”.
No one needs a biweekly spotify update.
No one needs 90 mb updates to the “google” app, doing nothing.
No one needs windows getting new wallpapers every six months.
And the tech media is continuously pushing for the newest, shiniest, up-to-datest… Cool down… Tell people how to block updates in play store. Tell people they can live without them. Tell people to relax… Please…
The totally unnecessary burden caused by this meaningless and endless race is hurting us, and the planet. We all could do with less electricity and diesel guzlling data centers, employed to just push GBs of updates for android apps for 4 billion users around the globe. Especially when those updates practically don’t change anything.
Oh sorry, they sometimes change the icon of the app, making it harder to find.
This may come as a crazy concept; but have you considered the possibility that your subjective computing needs may not be remotely representative of the millions of other users?
So, millions need the contacts app to be updated on a weekly basis?
And I’m the weirdo here.
Sure.
I’m hearing you but there is no stopping the relentless march forward. In many cases if there are no updates to their devices some people panic. Just like if they don’t get a notification every 10min they panic. The Pixel phones here are on Graphene and CalyxOS so we update apps when we can be bothered checking. The monthly OS update for CalyxOS is expected and painless. The laptops here run Devuan and the updates are infrequent too on stable channel.
So, they want to run Windows like Fedora, where we see very frequent updates. This would actually be a good thing.
(And a separate Server channel aka CentOS/RHEL which updates much less often).
But seems like they don’t want to go all in emulating Linux distributions. First they now have forks (Windows 10, and Windows 11), and terrible naming of releases. It should just be “Windows 10, 11, 12, 13”, or “Windows 2022.01, 2022.03, 2023.01”, etc.
(Side note: They caught on distributing half baked replacements for stable systems, like the Start Menu…. Actually, that is on brand with Linux distributions, breaking the desktop every other release 🙂 . Wish MS did not emulate that part).
Joking aside, I really like their rapid feature release approach. But Windows team needs to learn to manage this better. At least they should have not split into two consumer versions.
Terms like “Windows 11 22H2” and “Windows 11 23H2” are self-explaining, and your complaint in that other article was about these terms. But for whatever is worth, I also find Microsoft’s attempt to name their minor versions in all kinds of weird ways to be ridiculous.
FWIW I have come to actually _like_ Windows 11. As a Mac user, I hated Windows 10 and tolerated Windows 7. On my work machine, I have a limited set of programs I run and by and large things work well. The window management is a huge step up from macOS.
I appreciate the micro-improvements like pomodoro timers and PowerToys, the latter usually make it into the mainline OS over time. On that, I’m thrilled someone has finally had a go at fixing special character entry on Windows, which is one of my biggest gripes about the OS.
Meh at this point with Windows 10 being supported until 2025 and Windows 12 (AKA the “Oops my bad, its better now”) release scheduled for 2024 why in the 9 hells would you want to go to Windows 11?
I think its pretty clear Windows 11 is another Vista or Windows 8, where they test out ideas on suckers and then release a decent one next to woo back all those that skipped the previous release.
Why would anyone want to go to Windows 7 while XP was still supported? Why would anyone want to go to Windows XP while Windows 98 was still supported?
Because of new features and improvements they find useful. Because of new aesthetic they like. Because of countless other reasons.
I think it’s pretty clear Windows 11 is becoming another Windows XP — hated at release time, but becoming more and more polished and stable with time.
Nah, this is much more clearly like Windows 8 where Microsoft wants to try to force people to use it until they like it; but like Windows 8, people just fundamentally don’t like it. If you add a few clicks to the process of getting just about anything done, it’s only annoying.