Windows 12 is Coming - Are You Ready?

It seems like Yesterday that we got Windows 11 🤔

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0:00 - Windows 12, Really?
0:44 - Isn't it a Bit Soon?
2:41 - Do People Even Use Windows 11?
3:35 - A Complete Overhaul?
4:41 - New Features?
6:18 - What I'd Like to See
7:20 - What We've Actually Seen

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[madbanana]

Well, the new logo has a huge benefit: to store it as an image, 1x1 resolution will be enough

[SpinDlsc]

I personally wish they would switch to a 5-year major release model, with 3 years of feature updates, and 10 years of security and bug fix updates. This would give them more time to polish their new releases, rather than releasing them in an incomplete and buggy state. We all remember how the first release of Windows 10 and Windows 11 worked out. Even now, Windows 11 is getting updates that break things.

[Blap]

Good on you for including subtitles, many creators skip this part. Thanks!

[joshuatk]

Also at 7:33, notice the window for Teams doesn’t have the Minimize/Maximize/Close button at the top-right but instead a “…” button.

[lobotomizer]

One thing I for sure hope is that Windows 12 wont just be a second layer of paint to what is pretty much Windows 10

[Socomhunter]

The main thing I hope that AI feature has is an "off" setting.

[abeibrahim]

Thank you for a great overview of what is coming - that said - I have been working with and monitoring Microsoft since 1983, yes DOS days and like - One thing I noticed is, always as HW is beefed up it follows with OS that less robust and less optimized; as time pass and OS evolves, the developers began to focus on look-n-feel rather than performance and optimization until today as you can see.
What we should expect in this 21st Century is, a smart OS (in today's words) an AI OS that can heal itself, that can generate a logical prediction by giving facts to determine who is logged in, what they need to access, and to achieve it seamlessly. additionally, an OS analyzes its environment (HW capability, SW process demands, network resources present) to provide its user with all needed resources; likewise, the OS will know its network capacity and shortcoming, and establish maximum transfer channels between storage, internet, and streaming.
So you see, all these bells and whistles make no sense when it comes to productivity; we haven't seen anything like that, and that is because they are short-sighted in this area.

[tadams]

I believe it; the last snapshot of windows 11 in the Canary Channel has provided an odd experience with the dimensions and playback times of pictures, videos, and music are removed from the Navigation Pane jn file explorer. It feels more like a beta build of Windows 11.1 or higher instead.

Also, earlier this year they added the additional parameters for the OS to take more advantage of the chip you needed to run windows 11, but only directly after sunsetting support for Windows 10. They didn’t want to Develop Windows 10 to have more parameters to take advantage of the security of the Chip outside of the most basic of features, or do the bug fixes on those parameters for the older OS.

[ShadowzGSD]

anyone remember when they said 10 will be the last number and everything else will be built on top of it. I am not even ready for 11 so 12 is too far away for me.

[danendraarvareswara]

Windows 12? Wow, It's been 2 years with Windows 11, and Windows 12 is already shown there

[DrunCoPsyKen]

I had this in the background and you caught my attention with the floating task bar and the corner icons. You reference this to Mac OS type things, but I'm pretty sure Windows has been mooching ideas off of KDE, or other Linux desktops and window managers. The top bar seems to take a lot away from something called waybar, or eww. These type of bars are mostly added or suplemented to tiling window managers like i3, sway, hyprland, awesome and such. (Love tiling styles). Windows 11's task bar actually have me a deepin vibe. Or a launcher dock type that GNome 3 used.

On that note, I'm missing the close and maximize buttons. Which is a common theme in tiling window managers. Since you mostly control navigation and window placement through keyboard usage. Kinda like Windows' snap feature. Closing the windows doesn't always close the application if it can and wants to run in the background. Steam also used to kill itself off completely until they patched it with the new UI. Anyway, maybe the UI redesign is taking the different approach from the classic way to control 'windows'.

There has been an increase in desktop usage with Linux since the steam deck (without counting the steam deck systems), and maybe partially thanks to it. While you still might need a few alternatives to application (mainly adobe or office, which people need to stop dying on a hill for), Linux has become quite user friendly to use. And a lot of new users have noted it wasn't as scary as it seemed, or that it's changed to being more friendly by leaps. I've been using it for years and at moments, I didn't even realize how much easier stuff had gotten.

I really don't have hope for Windows anymore. And I think there are a lot more people who are skeptical of it improving. If they switch to Linux, all I can say is, try to catch Chris Titus Tech channel. Picking a distro really doesn't matter. There's Debian for stability, Arch and NixOS for the more advanced tinkerers and Linux Mint for the beginners. Red Hat started to lose it's way, but Nobara is probably the best one aimed for gamers. It's a Red Hat dev that has been actively releasing patched and improved versions of wine and proton. It's a fedora fork made for gamers. Most else is an unnecessary reskin of the before mentioned distros. There's rarely a distro that breaks out with their own thing.

[silvanpaul]

how did this guy go from troll to actual good content... i haven't been watching this channel for 10 years but still impressive!

[Factual_Explorer]

Gone are the days of slow but groundbreaking developments, where the primary focus was the user experience rather than rushing to meet release schedules. The emotional connection that users formed with Windows XP and the satisfaction of thoroughly exploring an operating system at their own pace.The longer gaps between releases allow for a more polished and groundbreaking outcome. As a developer, I feel that this shift may prioritize refinement over revolutionary leaps.There was a time when companies seemed to have a genuine passion for creating exceptional experiences for their users and the progress wasn't solely driven by monetary motives.

[maxmustsleep]

I have the strong feeling Microsoft will make the brave choice to move on from their good bad good pattern to good bad worse

[Em.P]

Im not ready, im hyped to what it might be.
This one should be the good cycle swing this time

[iwantpeace]

i hope to see new item in "file menu " called "compare." where user can select second file and the command will split the screen between the two files.

[mrfoodarama]

"Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows" I don't trust a single thing MSFT says 😂

[DaystromDataConcepts]

Personally, I'll probably stick to Windows 10 as long as possible. If or when I switch to Windows 12, I will be turning off as much AI features as possible. I like Windows to be lean and as bloat free as possible. I don't want AI second guessing everything you do and hogging resources, not to mention the likelihood that telemetry will get even more invasive.

[AFNacapella]

what I'd love to see:
- proper audio routing and controls supporting mixes for different output channels (onboard, slotted or ext)
- AI console: loose syntax, but deep access (although...nah, can't see anything go wrong with that at all...)
- multicore support, esp. for native 1 core processes (make a 8C/16T look like the beefiest 1C/1T if needed), distribute load more evenly over all cores

[Delghted]

Thank you. I was considering installing Windows 11 as I have time now, but may not by the time support ends for W10. However, launching W12 before the end of W10 support sounds very possible, considering the speed AI is developing. So maybe/hopefully we'll be able to to upgrade from W10 directly to W12