It’s nearly time for a next-generation version of the world’s most popular desktop operating system — Microsoft Windows.
Why you can trust Pocket-lint (Pocket-lint) — It’s nearly time for a next-generation version of the world’s most popular desktop operating system — Microsoft Windows. We believe the update will be known as Windows 11 thanks to some hints Microsoft has been dropping and Microsoft has scheduled a ‘What’s next for Windows’ event for 24 June 2021. The event will be livestreamed. How to watch Microsoft reveal the next generation of Windows Microsoft has been stuck on Windows 10 for quite some time — since 2015 in fact. The reason for that is fairly simple, Microsoft has iterated Windows 10 through twice-yearly updates, but not brought forth any fundamental changes. It also probably wanted to stick with a successful version of Windows given that while 2001’s Windows XP and 2009’s Windows 7 were massively successful, the in-between versions of 2006’s Windows Vista and Windows 8/8.1 (2012-13) weren’t that well received. Windows 10 X dead: Why can’t Microsoft make a lightweight version of Windows? We’ve known for a while that 2021 would bring a refresh to the Windows design, but it now appears to be bearing fruit as a new version codenamed Cobalt and known as Windows 11. The interface refresh itself is apparently known as Sun Valley internally at Microsoft. What’s happened with Windows 11? 10 June 2021 — Windows 11 will have a startup sound Microsoft has dropped a rather over-the-top video (above) with Windows startup sounds from the past slowed down by 4,000 percent — yes really. It’s a direct teaser for the What’s Next for Windows digital event so we can only assume that Windows will, once again, have a startup sound (as Windows 10 X was supposed to have).3 June 2021 — Microsoft confirms that there will be a ‘next-generation of Windows’ Microsoft sent out invitations to the media to its What’s Next for Windows digital event on 24 June, saying the key line «where the company will unveil the next generation of Windows». The event teaser also had a reflection of the Windows logo on it with the crossbar taken out from the ‘window’ meaning that the logo reflection showed as two vertical bars — aka 11.
