When will Windows 12 be released?

[Tryfire]

I just upgraded from an i5 8400 to an i5 12600k and installed Windows 11 but I'm really hating it now, and am wondering if I should go back to Windows 10 - but wouldn't that mean that a lot of the hardware upgrades I did would not be as beneficial due to the differences between win 10 and win 11, I can't even think about when is windows 12 coming out, because this is bothering me so much.

sorry if i hijacked your thread, didn't know if i should create a new post or nor.

Im on the same boat, I updated to win 11 cus the "security updates" but with all this AI bullshit, Im thinking of switching to Linux

[rikusky]

Les analystes et les sources techniques s'accordent généralement sur une sortie probable entre fin 2025 et début 2026, mais cela reste à confirmer par Microsoft.

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Les analystes et les sources techniques s'accordent généralement sur une sortie probable entre fin 2025 et début 2026, mais cela reste à confirmer par Microsoft.

Analysts and technical sources largely agree on a likely release between the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026, but this remains unconfirmed by Microsoft.

[x3vyx]

i need the next IOT version

[Tryfire]

I would give it more of a 2027-2028 range, in 2026 will be created, and then a year for cooking, advertising, release, ...

[tiggs]

I just upgraded from an i5 8400 to an i5 12600k and installed Windows 11 but I'm really hating it now, and am wondering if I should go back to Windows 10 - but wouldn't that mean that a lot of the hardware upgrades I did would not be as beneficial due to the differences between win 10 and win 11, I can't even think about when is windows 12 coming out, because this is bothering me so much.

sorry if i hijacked your thread, didn't know if i should create a new post or nor.

Im on the same boat, I updated to win 11 cus the "security updates" but with all this AI bullshit, Im thinking of switching to Linux

Yep, same. I really only use the thing to play games, so the only thing keeping in this shitty ecosystem is anticheat support. It is getting to the point where I'm going to stop playing games that are incompatible with Linux.

[Alberone]

i prefere linux, but which version of it would you choose to replace windows 11?

[krkanluk]

if it goes anything like windows 11 hopefully never

[Starwalker]

i dont really like windows 11, it pushes features that i dont wanna use at my face and hides non microsoft apps from doing their job(eg: extracting a zip is unnesesarily more annoying cause it hides winrar and 7zip in a different right click panel). just an over all poopfest. if not for the fact that half of the things break on linux and SSDs r too expensive rn to dual boot, id have switched to linux by now

[busfahrer88]

I can't image that windows 12 would be an improvement - it will the time I fully switch to linux

[Pelegolas]

Right now there’s no official release date for Windows 12. Rumors suggest 2026, but nothing has been confirmed yet.