Windows 11 has been out for almost a year now, meaning MSFT's devs have probably already forked the code and are quietly but steadily working on what will, eventually, become Windows 12 (or whatever it ends up being called by then)... Here are my predictions for the new release: 1. New NT kernel series -- W12 will see the sunsetting of the NT 10.x kernel series in favor of a new one, such as 11.x or straight up 12.0 if they want to keep kernel version and product name consistent; 2. UEFI Class 3-only, meaning absolutely no BIOS/MBR support whatsoever, nor UEFI+CSM (Class 2); 3. Extinction of WoW64 -- this will be a pure, 64-bit only release, no more 32-bit binaries anywhere on the OS, and therefore also no support for many legacy IA-32-only applications; 4. The Ultimate SKU makes a come back, bringing many extra consumer oriented features; 5. TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot will be hard, unbypassable requirements, all new computers and motherboards launched by then will have those enabled by default from factory with no way to turn them off. We won't be hearing anything official until mid to late 2023. However I'm sure MSFT already has internal builds of this circling around the company, and I believe the new OS will release in the same time frame as Server 2025. -- It's always fun to try and predict things!
You are too optimistic! Are you sure that by then the World War III (nuclear war) is over and there is still someone who needs Windows 12? I'm not at all so sure. Then most of us are dead under the ruins and any kind of "windows" not needed anymore to anyone.
Oh, lol I'm sure that deep inside the Nuclear and EMP hardened Cheyenne Mountain, where some of the most classified US military operations take place that all their mainframes run on a Windows type OS, nothing that would be available to you and me of course.
It's all branding, under the covers Windows 11 is Windows 10. Whether they come out with Windows 12, Windows 20, Windows 365 it will still progress the same.
This will almost certainly not happen. It's one thing to require, UEFI, TPM and all that. But they will not drop 32 bit apps anytime soon.
many are not lazy just dead... other such as the Clipmate dev are caught between a rock and a hard place with different Borland Delphi versions...
Maybe the removal of WoW64 won't happen immediatelly in the first W12 release. But in a later feature update. Since I presume Windows as a Service is now the norm. Heck, maybe even a future Windows 11 feature update will do this. I think many of the stuff we are seeing in today's W11 dev builds will end up in this future major release.
At some point MS may make WoW64 for Enterprise and Server editions only, Home and maybe Pro fully 64bit only.