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My hunch is that the minds behind Windows 10 being the last Windows have moved on. New blood needs a reason for a promotion.

Verdex 5y ago
Or possibly the opposite. Somebody's personal or professional enemy suggested a legitimate reason to go to Windows 11. And they realized that with a few small nudges that would look innocent they could sabotage the entire project and by extension their enemy's career. It could very well be that old timers behind Windows 10 are getting tired of the new blood getting in their way. So they let things progress in a way that would let them stab the Windows 11 people in the back and swoop in to save the day with Windows 12.
- travisporter 5y ago
  This could be a movie with Dinesh from Silicon Valley as Microsoft’s CEO Edit: ok wait this could be an episode of Silicon Valley although I haven’t see the last season
- CactusOnFire 5y ago
  It's all just a long-play by the windows 13 people, who will have their revenge as a dish served cold.
  - neuronic 5y ago
    This is a long play by Windows 3.1 developers who introduced hidden code which would execute mid-2021 to release automated marketing messages for "Windows 11" and force update the code base with small time UI changes. During the development of Windows 8 this code was discovered by a select and secret group of people. However, it was impossible to stop the scripts, silently executing on servers which are running in inaccessible concrete enclosures in Redmond since the 90s. Cutting power supply or opening the enclosure to get to these servers would severely damage other critical hardware so they started soft countermeasures. Unaware developers would spread Windows 10 as the "last" Windows release but the operation to mitigate the Windows 11 terror could not be endangered by exposing this information. To avoid global customer confusion, they chose their own strategy to deal with the sudden upgrade to "Windows 11" in 2021. They took the narrative into their own hands and jumped from Windows 8 directly to Windows 10, inventing some plausible story about why Windows 9 was missing. This way, the automated upgrade to Windows 11 could be masqueraded as their own choice
  - benbristow 5y ago
    But that'll be a bad release in the good/bad pattern so they'll be avenged by the Windows 14 people.
- toyg 5y ago
  I was thinking more that the "traditional" faction in MSFT, over 6 years, might have accumulated enough grievances and failures of the rolling model, that they made their case again and the leadership eventually went "fine, fine, we'll go back... for now".
- AniseAbyss 5y ago
  This is all part of the temporal war. The Windows 20 faction is manipulating the time line.
Kadin 5y ago
Couldn't it also just be that the hardware manufacturers / OEMs finally managed to successfully arm-twist someone in MSFT into declaring a new version, in order to intentionally obsolete more hardware? It's hard to do that on the "rolling release" Win10 model, which is actually why I liked it. There was sort of an implication that if it was "the last version of Windows" then I probably would be fine with my current hardware for quite a while. But major version upgrades have always had the risk of your hardware going obsolete with them. Just smells like an excuse for forced obsolescence to me.
mrweasel 5y ago
My thought was that this only happened because macOS went to 11.

Verdex 5y ago

Or possibly the opposite. Somebody's personal or professional enemy suggested a legitimate reason to go to Windows 11. And they realized that with a few small nudges that would look innocent they could sabotage the entire project and by extension their enemy's career. It could very well be that old timers behind Windows 10 are getting tired of the new blood getting in their way. So they let things progress in a way that would let them stab the Windows 11 people in the back and swoop in to save the day with Windows 12.

travisporter 5y ago
This could be a movie with Dinesh from Silicon Valley as Microsoft’s CEO Edit: ok wait this could be an episode of Silicon Valley although I haven’t see the last season
CactusOnFire 5y ago
It's all just a long-play by the windows 13 people, who will have their revenge as a dish served cold.
- neuronic 5y ago
  This is a long play by Windows 3.1 developers who introduced hidden code which would execute mid-2021 to release automated marketing messages for "Windows 11" and force update the code base with small time UI changes. During the development of Windows 8 this code was discovered by a select and secret group of people. However, it was impossible to stop the scripts, silently executing on servers which are running in inaccessible concrete enclosures in Redmond since the 90s. Cutting power supply or opening the enclosure to get to these servers would severely damage other critical hardware so they started soft countermeasures. Unaware developers would spread Windows 10 as the "last" Windows release but the operation to mitigate the Windows 11 terror could not be endangered by exposing this information. To avoid global customer confusion, they chose their own strategy to deal with the sudden upgrade to "Windows 11" in 2021. They took the narrative into their own hands and jumped from Windows 8 directly to Windows 10, inventing some plausible story about why Windows 9 was missing. This way, the automated upgrade to Windows 11 could be masqueraded as their own choice
- benbristow 5y ago
  But that'll be a bad release in the good/bad pattern so they'll be avenged by the Windows 14 people.
toyg 5y ago
I was thinking more that the "traditional" faction in MSFT, over 6 years, might have accumulated enough grievances and failures of the rolling model, that they made their case again and the leadership eventually went "fine, fine, we'll go back... for now".
AniseAbyss 5y ago
This is all part of the temporal war. The Windows 20 faction is manipulating the time line.

Kadin 5y ago

Couldn't it also just be that the hardware manufacturers / OEMs finally managed to successfully arm-twist someone in MSFT into declaring a new version, in order to intentionally obsolete more hardware? It's hard to do that on the "rolling release" Win10 model, which is actually why I liked it. There was sort of an implication that if it was "the last version of Windows" then I probably would be fine with my current hardware for quite a while. But major version upgrades have always had the risk of your hardware going obsolete with them. Just smells like an excuse for forced obsolescence to me.

mrweasel 5y ago

My thought was that this only happened because macOS went to 11.