Windows 10+1
M$ has announced the release of Windows 11, which comes as a surprise to those of us who thought that Windows 10 was not only the last version of Windows, but also the last version of Windows. When it was released in 2015, we were led to believe that the OS won't see a big launch or major upgrade every few years anymore
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Windows 10 could be the last major version of Windows. Microsoft could opt for Windows 11 or Windows 12 in future, but if people upgrade to Windows 10 and the regular updates do the trick then everyone will just settle for just "Windows" without even worrying about the version number.
Tom Warren, The Verge
Yet, here we are, only six years' later. A new version of Windows is released, and Windows 10 will be no longer supported in four years' time. (rolleyes)
Microsoft has unveiled Windows 11, its "next generation" operating system, at a virtual event.
Zoe Kleinman, technology reporter, BBC News
M$ CEO Satya Nadella's boast that this release represents a major milestone in the history of Windows
doesn't sound much like a regular update. Nor does the fact that M$ has raised the technical specifications needed to run the OS. Some of the seemingly arbitrary changes mean that older computers running version 10 will not be able to run 11. Hey ho.
I can't say that I love Windows 10, or even like it that much. It was an improvement over its predecessor, but that's damning with faint praise; version 8 set the bar so low that even Vista tripped over it. Windows 7 was the OS's highpoint, and it's been downhill ever since. (pipe)
MacOS FTW. (thumbup)
For his 2015 report on Windows 10, quoted above, Tom Warren obtained his information from comments made by Jerry Nixon during a Microsoft Ignite session. I tried to confirm the basis for his conclusion, but the session was too long and boring to plough through. So, yeah.