Microsoft will only release major updates to the Windows client every three years, while launching small new features for the OS more frequently.<\/p>\n
That is according to Windows Central senior editor, Zac Bowden, who has built up a reputation for accurately reporting insider developments regarding Microsoft’s plans for Windows in the past few years.<\/p>\n
Sources at the company have told Bowden<\/strong><\/a> that Microsoft is shifting to a new engineering schedule, which will see it return to a more conventional three-year release cycle.<\/p>\n This comes only months after Microsoft announced it was moving from a bi-annual to a yearly release plan for new Windows versions.<\/p>\n The next major update for Windows 11, codenamed Sun Valley 3, will now only be rolled out in 2024, instead of 2023.<\/p>\n Fortunately, those eager for new features won’t have to wait that long.<\/p>\n According to Bowden, Microsoft intends to ship new features to the in-market version of Windows, currently Windows 11, up to four times a year, starting in 2023.<\/p>\n Internally dubbed “Moments”, these updates will pack a handful of features that have been tested by users in the Windows Insider Programme and are ready for official availability.<\/p>\n Previously, product teams had to wait for the yearly release of the new client version to roll out new features.<\/p>\n Bowden was upbeat about Microsoft’s revamped approach to Windows updates, which have been the subject of much scrutiny from users in recent years.<\/p>\n “Overall, these changes to the Windows roadmap are significant and will allow Microsoft to do big-bang new releases of the Windows client every few years like it has in the past, while also keeping the in-market version of Windows current with new features and changes that roll out to users on a regular and frequent basis,” he stated.<\/p>\n Microsoft is revising its Windows update cycle, according to Windows Central senior editor Zac Bowden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":403409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,807,70233,71096],"class_list":["post-452750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-11","tag-zac-bowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452802,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452750\/revisions\/452802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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