Thursday, March 30th 2023
Microsoft Aims to Modernize its Upcoming Windows 12 with Modular Design
Insider sources at Microsoft have spoken of continued efforts to modernize the core of its operating system, with the work-in-progress Windows 12 cited as the ideal candidate for substantial updates. The engineering team is reported to be integrating a modular design, which will allow for a reduced operating system footprint - similar in principle to ChromeOS. According to a Windows Report article the operating system development team is hard at work on a spiritual successor to the abandoned Windows Core OS project. Their newest effort is reported to be called "Windows CorePC" and Microsoft is aiming to hit the same goals it set for its Windows 10X edition, which was cancelled in mid-2021, but they will also target native support for legacy applications on devices that require necessary access.
Windows Core OS was shutdown after years of development and internal testing - it was hoped that a modular Universal Windows Platform-first (UWP-F) operating system would be more lightweight and gain stronger security features, as well as greater access to regular updates. The inside sources stated that Windows Core OS will not be developed any further, at least not for desktop computer purposes. The Microsoft team is anticipating that its new CorePC project will lead onto new configurations of Windows that feature a capability of scaling up and down depending on hardware variations. Windows PCs and devices, in some user case scenarios, do not require full breadth of legacy Win32 application support. CorePC will enable different configurations of Windows to be installed on a custom basis.
Current versions of Windows operate via an unseparated state platform, this means that the entire system is installed into a single writable partition - which contains system files, user data, and program files. The aim of CorePC is to keep several states separated - this enables faster updates and improved security via read-only partitions that are inaccessible to the user and third-party apps. iPadOS and Android operate in such a fashion, where their operating systems are split up over multiple partitions. State separation is said to provide faster and more reliable system reset performance.
Microsoft is also said to be upgrading the next generation version of Windows with AI-powered features. This experimental silicon-optimized version will allow for reduce legacy overhead, focus on AI capabilities, and vertically optimize hardware and software user experiences. This lines up nicely with Microsoft's already announced plans to boost AI-based features in 2024. Is Microsoft's virtual assistant, Cortana, due for a couple of AI-powered upgrades?
Source:
Windows Central
Windows Core OS was shutdown after years of development and internal testing - it was hoped that a modular Universal Windows Platform-first (UWP-F) operating system would be more lightweight and gain stronger security features, as well as greater access to regular updates. The inside sources stated that Windows Core OS will not be developed any further, at least not for desktop computer purposes. The Microsoft team is anticipating that its new CorePC project will lead onto new configurations of Windows that feature a capability of scaling up and down depending on hardware variations. Windows PCs and devices, in some user case scenarios, do not require full breadth of legacy Win32 application support. CorePC will enable different configurations of Windows to be installed on a custom basis.
47 Comments on Microsoft Aims to Modernize its Upcoming Windows 12 with Modular Design
Sounds like this version will have tight integration with the new bing.Agreed bring back 10s start menu with pinning, tiles, and also the taskbar with smaller icons and quick launch.
Concentrate on adding actual useful features instead of tinkering with the UI every 5 minutes.
As for 11 - as far as I am concerned it has two big issues - context menus (some work is being done there at least) and lack of previous features. They really need to learn to move forwards without having to reimplement was was already there. I know Taskbar was rewritten from scratch, but... it took more than year for Task Manager option to reappear.
P.S.
Backwards compatibility is it's own curse I suppose.
And if they do something right, they "make up" for it by fucking ten other things into oblivion.
Yeah ms loves changing the rules of the game a lot
Just noticed a banner on onedrive.com saying storage amount is going to change think i have 15gb free at one time I could of claimed for 50gbs+- free and I barely use 2gbs lol so I'm guessing they will drop the 15gb down to 5gb like most other offer.
There was a learn more of course lol and it was just spamming office 365 blah... so they're likely trying to do another push 365 subscriptions to might mandate it on win-12 :laugh:
www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows
As for debloating, the forms I recall almost always use the OS own tools (add/remove programs/features and whatever they call their powershell-based package manager). Now, one could argue that those features could be made immutable as well, but I personally doubt it. Doing so would require re-imaging the entire OS just to push an update for, say, the calculator app.
Going read-only without first going modular would be a nightmare to Microsoft as well. Imagine having to repackage and distribute a 4GB image every-time you update a 4MB library...
All-in-all, I don't think making c:/windows immutable would, by itself, make much difference (save for security and reliability).
Module 0: Windows and whatever,
Modules 1-65536: Data mining and spyware called "telemetry",
Modules 65537-262144: ads and forced Bing
Module 262145: A unique bluescreen due to a buffer overflow in the module counter.
Also
*laughs in Linux*
Although 13 is a number of change maybe for the better HA!.
I don't think PS will ever be broadly adopted.
The reasons I've laid out as to why this is improbable weren't that it would *just* inconvenience the user, but also because it would make Microsoft's own life more difficult, as elaborated on the paragraph immediately after the one you've quoted. A reasoning that applies even from a cynic pov.
Now, I'd love to hear the historical evidence that paints Microsoft as imbeciles habitually deploying tech that harms everyone, including themselves. I'd also appreciate not putting me on the same stand with shills and apologists.