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
Now what do I do with things like adobe software? That I actually use enough to warrant "needing" them, or games like D2, maybe I'll have to move to setting up virtual machines.
Maybe I'll start by making a linux partition and seeing how nice that plays
My next windows upgrade , maybe around 2026.
Unless GTA VI won't run on 11... But that's highly unlikely..
sauce is so good with spaghetti
The only time you're forced on the terminal is to modify some core parts of the systems, but then again even in windows you would use the terminal or registry editors and other "unfriendly" programs.
With that said don't be too afraid of the terminal, the most a normal user would do with it is "sudo apt install x".
Been using Peppermint since Win 10 came out and I haven't had to use the terminal line once.
Current version I'm using is Peppermint 10 and it's almost identical to using Windows, plus I've never had issues with drivers (Yet), all I have works just fine and that's even with newer hardware such as an AM4 based setup.
No USB issues or anything else to mention.
Thank fuck for dual booting being possible
If the only thing tying people to Windows is gaming support, that bastion is being eroded faster than I can look up the numbers for it.
FFXIV can be played on Linux, but its not as easy as other games to get working I hear.
Yeah variations of twelveforum domains have already been saved lol
Hell if linux was all that good I'd still be using it
Gave up once OBS studio showed flicking on recordings but not watching them live so the learning/ troubleshooting is just to damn much
Maybe it will change in a few years who knows what steam will do by then
I've given linux mint a couple chances and came up short each time.
Not sure on the upgrade part but they do let you swapout batteries and maybe broken screens at their stores.
It used to be like 20.us
Zorin OS - Home
There is point and click package management as well as admin, depends if the UI is configured right and the appropriate packages installed for it, I havent needed to use command line on steam deck.
Windows 11 launched 2021, so looks like we have now roughly a 3 years release schedule, horrible. :(
It usually takes me 3-5 years to decide if I want to move to a newer Windows OS now, as I wait for the kinks to be ironed out and such, but it seems Microsoft now want to be in a constant new OS mode. Wish was an easy way to bump 10 21H2 to IoT license.
Double the bugs for turning crapware off to :/
- I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. But check this ad in your start menu instead!