Windows 11 Development Team Returns to Annual Major Version Releases

Panos Panay’s legacy collapses. Under his leadership, the development team began adding features to Windows every month, with slightly larger packages several times a year. However, they are small in scope compared to the classic main versions. In the last year, the Redmonds have brought the former system-as-a-service concept to the final stage, which they now call “continuous innovation“.

But Panay in September left Microsoft and American journalist Zac Bowden’s sources confirm that the new management of Windows returns to the annual frequency of releasing major versions. Therefore, smaller functional packages should no longer be released during the year. At least not regularly, although an exceptional occurrence cannot be ruled out. In addition, this will only apply from the release of a new major version of Windows.

Until then, it will therefore come out more at least one Moment for Windows 11 23H2, in February to March, claims Bowden. After all, the development team will apparently have room to finish one more pack – after all, one came out this summer as well. We will find out next year if we will actually see it.

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Main release of Windows until early autumn

Now for the most important thing. The chassis of the next major version of Windows will be completed in April, while the user superstructure on top of the core technologies will not be ready until August. A new operating system will therefore be released only in the period from September to October. We don’t yet know what the Redmonds will name him. It can be Windows 12, Windows 11 24H2, etc.

The fact that the two teams are not working in sync is not new – it started to happen in 2019 after a reorganization, when the Windows core technology development team moved to the Azure group and began to prioritize its requirements. Information then American journalist Mary Jo Foley reported.

This in itself is not decisive from the user’s point of view, if we then get the result all at once. But this will not happen for the first time in history. The Snapdragon X Elite processor platform is said to be responsible for everything. According to Bowden, computer manufacturers want to have machines with these processors on the market as early as June, i.e. they’re not going to wait for the fall major release of Windows.

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Microsoft will accommodate them and these computers will arrive on the market with an unspecified version of Windows, which will already offer a completed a chassis that will be compatible with the new ARM processors. However, due to the logic of things, this version does not yet offer user functions.

Not all. Those that will be ready by then will be delivered by Microsoft to snapdragon PCs via a regular service update. Of course, all other regular computers will not be affected by this update, as these machines will receive all new functions only with the autumn upgrade. (If they are compatible.)

The internal codename for the core Windows technologies that will be finalized in a few months is Germanium. The user section is labeled Hudson Valley.

Resources: Windows Central

2023-12-12 16:45:08
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