Windows 12, Microsoft’s next operating system, will be designed as a more modular system that will allow for quick and frequent updates without much user demand.
The company has yet to formally announce a new version of Windows, but Microsoft is already laying the groundwork for testing. Windows 12 with a new Windows Insider Canary build.
And now we’re starting to hear whispers of what Windows 12 may have in store. A Windows Central report claims that this new CorePC concept will strip Windows 12 (or whatever it’s called) down to its components, representing another attempt at a “modern” version of Windows.
As the article points out, Microsoft already tried it with Windows 10X, but without the components that would simplify the operating system. As you know, Microsoft canceled Windows 10X, but kept the user interface as part of Windows 11.
A Windows like we’ve never seen before
According to windows central, the CorePC concept uses something called “separation of states”, which basically divides the operating system into several partitions. It is not clear if these partitions would be accessible to the user or not.
The other advantage, apparently, is that the separation of various components into different partitions (or virtual buckets) allows each partition to be managed and updated separately. In theory, this would make it possible to update the Windows operating system more quickly and smoothly.
What CorePC would do, apparently, is break some of that code apart to make this new approach to modularity even easier to implement. This will have a number of potential benefits: another attempt by Microsoft to take on Chromebooks and Google’s Chrome OS on the low end.
