Windows 11, we return to updates every 3 years: goodbye to Windows as a service?

Microsoft is apparently organizing a revolution in Windows upgrade strategies: from today’s small annual update, modus operandi launched with Windows 10 with even two updates a year, the company could decide to revert to the release of a major update every three years. This means that we could see a possible new Windows 12 in 2024, due to a return to origins by Microsoft and an apparent abandonment of the strategy. Windows as a service.

In 2009 Microsoft replaced Windows Vista – released in 2006 – with Windows 7. Three years later Windows 8 arrived and, after another three years, Windows 10 was released. With this latest version the concept of Windows as a service was introduced, with the operating system that was updated with new features even more than once a year.

Windows, do you revert to the update every three years?

According to a new Windows Central articlein the future we could revert to the previous update cadence, but the Windows as a service approach will not be abandoned: Microsoft will continue to refine the latest version of Windows with small updates with features that will be released roughly every quarterinternally referred to as Moments.

We already had a first taste of the new strategy with Windows 11, which evolved with new small functions constantly throughout the year, instead of keeping the big changes for the update coming with Windows 11 22H2. In the future, according to the source, even on Windows 11 we may not see the big release usually scheduled for the end of the year anymore and already the update with 2023 features would have been eliminated from Microsoft’s plans.

Windows 11 22H2, the main news of the first update with features

The company has not confirmed or denied the rumors, and leaves room for several questions: Will Windows 11 23H2 be there? Will Windows 12 be a paid upgrade, as it was in the past before Windows 10? Will the features that will be introduced with the new updates also arrive on the predecessors, if they will also be supported at the release of the new versions? And again, what kind of updates will there be in the “Moments”, and which ones in the new full releases?

The return to the release of new versions of Windows could represent an excellent weapon from the media point of view for Microsoft, as well as the opportunity to make major changes every three years in terms of features, UI and even the requirements of system (controversial aspect of Windows 11). Microsoft, however, has not yet unbuttoned the news, and until it does, the company’s plans may change, thus maintaining the current approach.

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