Will Windows 12 be a free upgrade? If you are a current Windows 11 user, it is fairly certain that the next major Windows upgrade will be free, much like the last upgrade. Microsoft typically offers ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is changing how it releases major versions of Windows again, and it ...

Microsoft is promoting Windows 11 and its new Copilot+ PCs at CES 2025. Notably absent from the company's announcements is any mention of a possible Windows 12 release. Instead, the tech giant is ...

A Microsoft watcher claims Redmond is returning to a three-year major release system. I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 years, focusing on photo and video editing, operating ...

Windows 12 is already upon us. Microsoft hasn’t released the new operating system yet, or even formally announced it, but Microsoft’s September 2023 event made it clear that recent updates to Windows ...

Microsoft’s “Windows 12” will be designed as a more modular system that will enable quick, frequent updates without much handholding from the user, according to a new report. The company hasn’t ...

Microsoft is reportedly considering releasing Windows 12 as a subscription service. As Neowin reports, an INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, ...

Microsoft is making clear that its strategy to retire Windows 10 later this year will proceed as planned, and that its primary focus after that will be Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs. To that end, the ...

It might feel as though Windows 11 just came out yesterday, but Microsoft is already hard at work on its operating system’s next iteration. At Friday’s Ignite 2022—Microsoft’s annual development and ...

Software King of the World Microsoft is not going to release a new generation of Windows and wants to jack more AI under the bonnet of Windows 11 instead. Eager to capitalise on the current AI buzz, ...

What just happened? The long-running rumors that Windows 12 would be arriving in the near future appear to be untrue after Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows 11 is coming this year.