14 DAY TRIAL // The AI revolution is happening as we speak, and while certain Windows features are already powered by artificial intelligence, Microsoft is ready to bet big on this new concept for the future of its operating system.
Microsoft’s Panos Panay talked about the integration of AI in the Windows experience at AMD’s keynote at CES, explaining that everything we do on the operating system will be reinvented as artificial intelligence takes over.
As per Neowin, Microsoft is also expected to bet even bigger on cloud power, with Panay himself also explaining that the next Windows will “blur the line between cloud and edge.”
The power of Windows 12
Whether or not Panay is referring to Windows 12 or a Windows version that would launch later this decade is something that remains to be seen though.
“AI is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows, quite literally. Like these large generative models, think language models, code gen models, image models; these models are so powerful, so delightful, so useful, personal. But they are also very compute intensive, and so we haven't been able to do this before. We have never seen these intense workloads at this scale before, and they're right here. It's gonna need an operating system that blurs the line between cloud and edge, and that's what we are doing right now,” Panay was quoted as saying.
Sources close to the matter said Windows 12 is projected to launch in 2024 or 2025, with the work on the OS already started behind closed doors at Microsoft.
At this point, however, Microsoft continues to work on Windows 11, and a debut of Windows 12 in 2025 makes more sense because this is also the year when Windows 10 is scheduled to be retired. This would allow the company to continue supporting two operating systems, just like it happens today.