Wednesday, December 6th 2023
Set Your Calendars: Windows 12 is Coming in June 2024 with Arm Support and AI Features
Microsoft is preparing a big update for its Windows operating system. Currently at version 11, the company is gearing up for the launch of Windows 12, which is supposed to bring a monumental shift in the tectonic plates of the regular PC user experience. Enhanced by AI, the Windows 12 OS should utilize many features like generative AI, large language models, some GPT integration, and many other tools that could benefit AI, like photo editors. The confirmation for the Windows 12 launch coming in 2024 is sourced from the Taiwanese Commercial Times, which analyzed comments from Barry Lam, the founder and chairman of PC contract manufacturer Quanta, and Junsheng (Jason) Chen, the chairman and chief executive of Acer.
Both of them underscored the importance of AI and that AI PCs are coming with the next version of Windows. Supposedly, the launch date for Windows 12 is set for June 2024. In that timeframe, hardware vendors should roll out their SoCs embedding AI processing elements at every silicon block. Qualcomm is set to debut its Snapdragon Elite X SoCs in mid-2024, aligning with the alleged release schedule of Windows 12. With more players like NVIDIA, AMD, and others planning to utilize an Arm instruction set for their next-generation PC chips, we expect to see Windows 12 get full-fledged support for Arm ISA and treat it like a first-class citizen in the OS.
Sources:
Commercial Times (Taiwanese), PC World
Both of them underscored the importance of AI and that AI PCs are coming with the next version of Windows. Supposedly, the launch date for Windows 12 is set for June 2024. In that timeframe, hardware vendors should roll out their SoCs embedding AI processing elements at every silicon block. Qualcomm is set to debut its Snapdragon Elite X SoCs in mid-2024, aligning with the alleged release schedule of Windows 12. With more players like NVIDIA, AMD, and others planning to utilize an Arm instruction set for their next-generation PC chips, we expect to see Windows 12 get full-fledged support for Arm ISA and treat it like a first-class citizen in the OS.
163 Comments on Set Your Calendars: Windows 12 is Coming in June 2024 with Arm Support and AI Features
Good bad good rule for Windows might be gone now.
Shame Vulkan didnt have higher take up.
half the framerate of windows, stuttering, lags...
So far what's keeping me from jumping fully on linux is just games and a few rare use-cases that I can't replicate in linux (like photoshop's text manipulation). I'm so close to running "linux with a win VM just in case" but it's still a problem.
I've tried a few distros and the one with the nicer experience seemed to be Garuda Linux (both on performance and ease of use).
I mostly blame Unreal Engine for choosing DX12 instead of Vulkan, we could be having a much easier time by now...
I wouldn't say 10 managed to be good, it's just 7 with updates and DX12 and a lot of added bloat, but sure it wasn't as bad as 8 or 11.
Than now Windows 12, Microsoft should just call it.
Windows 10 Service Pack 3.
Seriously Windows 11 feels like Windows 10 Service Pack 2 but they won't name
it that way. Since Win 12 is on the way, Win 10 will be like Win 7 be killed off
eventually.
Win 11 hardware requirement is quite demanding, not sure about Win 12.
What's next? Slowing down older PCs in order to push for new, useless hardware, such as Apple's iPhones, which are basically identical since 11th Gen?