Microsoft is delaying its next major Windows release, which it had originally planned for sometime next year, to 2024 — reports Windows Central.
More broadly, Microsoft is returning to a more traditional three-year release cycle for major iterations of Windows. The tech giant launched Windows 11 in 2021, so we won’t see its successor until 2024.
According to Windows Central‘s sources, Microsoft has scrapped the major Windows update it had planned for 2023, which was internally codenamed Sun Valley 3, and is going back to the drawing board for the 2024 release. That said, some of the features from the planned 2023 release will make it into Windows 11 version 22H2, due to ship later this year.
Microsoft is also shifting to a new, more frequent release schedule for new features on its currently in-market versions of Windows. Internally, Microsoft’s new schedule for feature drops is being called “Moments.”
Starting with Windows 11 version 22H2 (Sun Valley 2), Microsoft is kicking off a new “Moments” engineering effort which is designed to allow the company to rollout new features and experiences at key points throughout the year, outside of major OS releases. I hear the company intends to ship new features to the in-market version of Windows every few months, up to four times a year, starting in 2023.
The new schedule will give Microsoft more opportunities to improve Windows throughout the year and allow development teams to ship features they’ve been working on without waiting around for the annual fall release of Windows.
For each of these “Moments,” Microsoft will pack a bunch of new features and OS improvements that Insiders have been testing into a neat little update and roll it out to everyone.
As for the major Windows release that’s now slated for 2024, not much is known at this time. Microsoft is currently in the early planning and engineering stages, and people within the company have referred to it as “Next Valley.”
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The Windows 12 operating system will probably be like a Windows 11 service pack, I wonder how they’ll mess around with the start menu this time?
Apple should take notes. Major OS releases should be released at a minimum 3 years gap between them. Yearly releases only brings new bugs that sometimes takes a whole year to fix.
No, they should do the exact opposite of anything Microsoft is doing lmao
My macOS Catalina and Monterey force me to disagree. Since I use a Mac (started with El Captan) every 2 years I’m having some bad experiences. For what I remember, I had a lot of kernel panic with Catalina, Big Sur was very stable and almost bug free for me and now Monterey brings tap to click and pinch to zoom issues for me and a lot of people and its still not fixed yet.
Releasing a new major OS every year is just pure marketing. A way to “force” people upgrading their computers if their old machines aren’t compatible.
Litteraly installed every single beta version since Lion and haven’t faced any major issue
yes, because yearly huge updates work so well, aka a marketing scheme to stop supporting older hardware even sooner and bugs that can take most of a release cycle for Apple to fix.
Yes it work really well and has worked well for them for the past 12 years.
Apple release at least 6 minor update a year to patch bug so I don’t know what you mean. One update very 2-3 years wouldn’t change a thing about hardware support, they would just drop more device at one time. Anyway the update are so minor you don’t “need” to be on the latest version, Apple provide security update for the 2 previous version so you’re just making excuses
In general I don’t agree with following anything MS does but with respect to big releases I do agree with your statement. I prefer bug fixes and I’d prefer incremental feature releases, not huge OS releases.
I wonder if the new Windows will be incomplete like Win11 is, heck Windows 11 doesn’t have the Amazon Appstore Android thing that only the USA has 😂