What's next for Windows?

[Essence Lumin]

Actually the future of Windows may be moving back to terminal server style Operating systems. Your environment exists on the cloud and it doesn't matter what the host is running really.

Idk, MS can't even replicate word adequately in the cloud last I checked. High bandwith programs like modern video games won't work either.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I agree with you. I like Windows 10's UI.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I agree with you. I like Windows 10's UI.

Like doesn't even come into the equation for me. I know it and it works reasonably well. I don't want to spend time and braincells learning yet another UI to do the exact same things I'm doing now. My computer is a tool for doing things. I have limited interest in the tool itself if it's doing what I need, when I need it.

 

[Caete]

Does that mean current Windows software will continue to work?

I have an insane amount of laptops running NT, Win7, Win10, Vista, Vista Business, and XP, no updates for them but they work fine.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

When has Microsoft ever dumped backwards compatibility? It's their bread and butter (and jam) in the business realm.

It could be said that insisting on maintaining that backwards compatibility is part of the reason new versions of Windows always tend to contain some antiquated features and interfaces that impact system performance sometimes...

 

[Free]

It could be said that insisting on maintaining that backwards compatibility is part of the reason new versions of Windows always tend to contain some antiquated features and interfaces that impact system performance sometimes...

Tohmaytoes, Pineapples.

 

[Sid]

Actually the future of Windows may be moving back to terminal server style Operating systems. Your environment exists on the cloud and it doesn't matter what the host is running really.

Clouds are for airplanes, not for essential computer data like my shopping lists.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

I'm actually quite happy with W10's UI right now. There's already been some reveals of updated icons, and I suppose IF what's coming up is indeed another version of Windows those will be in it. But the overall interface is good enough for me. Maybe the only thing I'd really like to see changed is them finally getting rid of all the Windows 7 control panel windows and making all that stuff consistent.

Well but it's also fact that so far Microsoft always revamped the UI of Windows with a new, major release. So I would really not count on it, that Microsoft changedabsolutely nothing on the Windows UI if they are indeed announcing now Windows 11.

Windows 10 is now almost 6 years old, which is an eternity in the computer world, and since then UI design fashion changed quite a lot, as you can see for example on the new UI of Microsoft Outlook.

So I do expect really at least some minor changes if this Windows announcement is really about Windows 11.

 

[Noodles]

Idk, MS can't even replicate word adequately in the cloud last I checked. High bandwith programs like modern video games won't work either.

Yeah, I doubt it works well, but I have heard suggestions that is where they are going.

 

[Clara D.]

Actually the future of Windows may be moving back to terminal server style Operating systems. Your environment exists on the cloud and it doesn't matter what the host is running really.

Which would make a laptop useless for on-the-road use.

 

[Free]

Which would make a laptop useless for on-the-road use.

Back to lugging around PDPs?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Nothing wrong with PDPs, you just gotta have to hug and love them!

 

[Noodles]

Which would make a laptop useless for on-the-road use.

Hell it could make a laptop useless for in building use. The LAN at my office is god awful but I could absolutely see my company adopting that sort of terminal server system if it were offered. There are times when I get weird click lag and my conspiracy is they have already been testing it behind the scenes.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Well but it's also fact that so far Microsoft always revamped the UI of Windows with a new, major release. So I would really not count on it, that Microsoft changedabsolutely nothing on the Windows UI if they are indeed announcing now Windows 11.

Windows 10 is now almost 6 years old, which is an eternity in the computer world, and since then UI design fashion changed quite a lot, as you can see for example on the new UI of Microsoft Outlook.

That's true, but Windows 10 is different from previous versions in that it's UI has itself changed incrementally over that time period, and what it looks like now is substantially different from how it looked at launch.

My prediction is (and I could end up being wrong) that there will likely be some cosmetic refresh with "Windows 11" but that the function and arrangement of the UI will be the same as it is now.

 

[Essence Lumin]

They used to say there will never be a windows 11. Now that they are doing it, I think there will some sort of significant change, more than just changing the UI a little. Then again, this is Microsoft which isn't known for big innovations so maybe not.

 

[Free]

Nothing wrong with PDPs, you just gotta have to hug and love them!

And call them George?

 

[Kalel]

Hell it could make a laptop useless for in building use. The LAN at my office is god awful but I could absolutely see my company adopting that sort of terminal server system if it were offered. There are times when I get weird click lag and my conspiracy is they have already been testing it behind the scenes.

i don't think terminal systems will taking off until we enter an always online age . internet would be a public utility and you'd be able to access from any interface since nothing is stored locally anymore.. Current ISPs will fight to make sure that doesn't happen.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Wait wait. A native package manager? On MY Windows?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Slow-fi is a weird thing that bored and lonely people have created lately where they take a song and they slow it down - like, a lot. Usually also using a frequency filter to flatten the sound a bit too. The resulting music is supposed to be "relaxing" and appealing, though I personally have never found it to be so.

But anyway, Microsoft just released another contextless video, calling it a "slow-fi remix" of the Windows 95, XP, and 7 startup sounds.


I mean you can listen if you want; but I think the more important thing about the video is, it says "Microsoft Event 2021" at the bottom, referring to the Windows event coming later this month....and it is exactly 11 minutes long.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I thought Windows 10 was supposed to be the "last version of Windows", to be updated in perpetuity.

I'm not sure I'm ready for a Windows 11.