Well, Ysuf Medhi, VP Corporate of Microsoft said he's never been so enthusiastic for an update since Windows 95, also Nadella said it's one of the most important updates in the last decade
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Exactly, they said there would have been no "number increase" on Windows anymore. But we all know Microsoft isn't always consistent, even more when it comes up to communication strategies to consumers. It will be actually interesting to see what they'll be wanting to do. They already tried ARM before but it turned out to be kinda a messWhen they released windows 10, they were famous for saying "this will be the last windows version ever" or the "forever version". The idea was just to have "windows" that was constantly updated in the background rather than having major release versions.
Windows 10 Takes Its Place as Microsoft's 'Forever OS' -- Redmondmag.com
The end of the great Windows migration is in sight.
Perhaps marketing wise, it's not working out, and I think the timing related to MacOS moving to ARM is significant. M1 Macs are stealing a lot of ground from the Surface lineup from what I'm hearing, even with the fact they haven't released the M1 Mac Pro yet. They've got crazy low latency and incredible efficiency, and the Rosetta 2 application virtualisation is effective and stable enough to successfully run any unsupported X86 apps without losing performance, and in some cases, still gaining performance despite the fact it's virtualised.
The word on the grapevine is that Microsoft will be buying into ARM as well with the intention of designing their own silicon initially for the Surface lineup, and we all know they've been trying to get Windows to run on ARM without much success. Again, I don't think it's insignificant that the M1 Macs are able to run virtualised windows instances more successfully than Microsoft managed natively on ARM devices up until this time.
Microsoft Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs
Microsoft Corp. is working on in-house processor designs for use in server computers that run the company’s cloud services, adding to an industrywide effort to reduce reliance on Intel Corp.’s chip technology.The world’s largest software maker is using Arm Ltd. designs to produce a processor...
My guess is you're probably right, this may be a whole new version. If so, the integration with Windows 10x may well be opening up the doors to ARM integration.
That would be a very good move if they can pull it off. They're going to lose a lot of ground to Apple if they don't start competing with ARM silicon, and after quite a number of years of successfully stealing apple customers to the surface lineup. I have no doubt that Apple Silicon will outperform X86 architecture in the very near future, and rumours are, they may well be announcing the M2 based Mac Pro at WWDC next week. The rumours are up to 40 cores on the CPU and 64 on the GPU:
Apple Preparing Faster M2 Chip for Next-Gen MacBook Pro
Apple is readying its more powerful, next-generation "M2" chip for redesigned MacBook Pro models, according to recent reports. According to...
Could a 40-core Apple M1 Mac Pro be en route with 14- and 16-inch M1 MacBook Pros?
he new computers will come equipped with the M1 Apple Silicon chips, as part of the Cupertino giant's move away from Intel-based systems.
Nah, they're going to scrap the Windows™ completely and call it GUIDOS™Not Windows 11 nor Windows 10.5. My bet is it will just be called "Windows". You read it here first!
considering it is windows we are talking about it will be more like "potholes" xD
