Much of its life was spent better integrating and simplifying that interface so that the graphical user interface is firmly integrated with the OS, which has become more tightly tied to cloud resources over time.īut since Satya Nadella’s rise to company leadership, the focus has shifted sharply to interoperability, security and cloud integration, all of which promises a very different strategic future for the platform. This is very different from how Windows started as a graphical user interface for DOS.

This trend has elements that include an advancing integration between cloud and desktop Windows implementations, a big increase on the security focus for the OS, more automated management and deployment tools, better integration between Android and Windows, and finally, a huge advancement in AI. This is pure speculation but based on how Windows 10 advanced from Windows 8, and Windows 11 advanced from Windows 10, I think we can see a new trend. Let’s jump ahead to the end of this decade and talk about what this may mean for the next generation of Windows, Windows 12. I have noticed that Office 365 has also been getting smarter, its editing tools have advanced and are certainly less annoying than Grammarly (which I also use), and predictive typing almost seems to be able to tell the future. This would be huge because each of us is somewhat unique in both what we do and how we do it. This has long been a promise of AI applied to computer interfaces, that instead of us having to learn to work with computers, they, would learn to work with us. However, what really caught my eye was the promise that AI (artificial intelligence) technology was being applied to the product and that, increasingly, Windows 11 would be adapting dynamically to the way you work.

This month Microsoft gave a briefing on the coming features for Windows 11 with some of the most compelling having to do with security and management.

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