Did I miss Microsoft's purchase of vmware? The fact that someone wrote in when their assumptions based on the timing of the release does not make the release of the OS official.
Once again: vmware belongs to Microsoft? Those, it can be argued that in the official Microsoft product there is an indication of another product? Any programmer can indicate potential support for future operating systems to the code. Thus, you can make a list of OS for another century, but this does not guarantee the official information. The title of the topic states precisely about officiality, and the topic itself is about something else. We see discussion of third party software, not information from Microsoft or leaked through their code.
That is still far from official, in the MS sense. Even if MS hints to it, it's still not official (MS is thousands of people, with some saying dumb things). Only when they announce it, then it is.
Well, to me. I will wait longer to find right "Stabled Windows OS!!" Windows 11 is bring crazy problems, Windows 12, I don't know?? Windows 13 ??? Who knows.. As far I currently running Windows 10 seem just freaking fine for me.. Think about Windows 7 and Windows XP has the good long runs before Windows 8.xx screw up, skip to Windows 10 came out good, But got really better now... Just into quickly Windows 11.. I rather skip 2 OS version.. ATGPUD2003
In 2021, I correctly predicted that Windows 11 would be 64-bit only, following Server 2008 R2 (Lol, was just a wild lucky guess... haha) But x64 W11 still features WoW64, allowing it to run legacy IA-32 apps. - I opened my task manager and found only 4 x86-32 executables running, and all four of them belong to Intel. So, does anyone else believe the next major Windows release (or one of its feature updates/moments) will do also away with WoW64 -- therefore removing any and all support for 32-bit apps and libraries?
No, 32bit support will most probably be with us for a long time, still. Remember, it's possible that a process showing as 64bit is only partially x64, sometimes only a wrapper around the hidden x86 sub- and child processes. Remember IA64, it had no compatibility to existing software, and it failed. What they could do is make it optional (meaning you can enable/disable it, like for Server).
I don't think 32Bit support is Windows biggest problem. It's all the old API's and resources needed to keep legacy software running.
I think Windows 11 is Windows 10 with modifications, they have put the TPM 2.0 Secure Boot restrictions on it and they have washed its face, do you remember when they were going to change the icons to Windows 10 I was in the Windows Insider program and they were in Build 21390.2025 .21052 was Windows 10 and had all the icons and screen the same as Windows 11 but it was still Win10 and the next thing they did was launch it as Windows 11