• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

It's easy to say move to Linux but that has a long way to go. Still a headache to use and not all games work on it. It has improved a lot but still needs a lot of work.
 

Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

Click to expand...

Infinity War Avengers GIF by Marvel Studios



200.gif
 
Last edited:
Future os will be physical, words displayed through your vision, AI officials saying what's right or wrong, Agents holding conversations

matrix reloaded fight GIF
 
Donald mac Ronald said:
Imagine releasing a new windows when your latest one still is broke, unfinished and a mess.
Click to expand...
Microsoft has a bug right now with O365 Word and OneDrive syncing where when a hypenated word/sentence is used, the sync will break at the hyhen and duplicate the sentence across the web-based app(s). It's one issue after another with OneDrive/O365. I can't imagine Win12 ever being stable if thats their goal.
 
Topher said:
Guess this gives us a hint on how Microsoft is planning on monetizing next gen Xbox

Matthew Broderick GIF
Click to expand...
If the next Xbox has a built in NPU - and based on this article, I imagine it will - it opens up the concept of localised AI assistants accessible via your Xbox included as part of your Game Pass subscription (ruining the "Game Pass" name). Think Amazon's Alexa on steroids. Of course, it brings back the PTSD of Kinect ("Xbox on!") but I imagine Xbox's marching orders are the same as the rest of Xbox: make AI successful to justify Nadella's over-extend.
 
If this is true, MS probably cares very little about consumer/gamer adoption at this phase, and are focusing on Enterprise where they basically have the professional world handcuffed.

Despicable and infinitely greedy, so it's probably all true.
 
for personal use, I've got a newish MacBook, a steam deck, a switch 2, and an old gaming PC on Windows 10. Maybe Windows 12 will actually be great, but my expectations are rock bottom. I can't see myself bothering with this. I'm trying to avoid subscriptions.
 
Quantum253 said:
Microsoft has a bug right now with O365 Word and OneDrive syncing where when a hypenated word/sentence is used, the sync will break at the hyhen and duplicate the sentence across the web-based app(s). It's one issue after another with OneDrive/O365. I can't imagine Win12 ever being stable if thats their goal.
Click to expand...
Onedrive. That's another thing I wonder about. The way they try to trick you into using Onedrive is already seriously gross. I wouldn't be surprised if they're making it mandatory in Windows 12. It would make sense, too, if Windows itself is becoming a subscription.
 
Last edited:
Microsoft has to know by now that the days of consumers paying for an operating system are over. They can probably wring licenses out of businesses but the average joe isn't going to subscribe to their own computer.
 
Will each module have a name?
Xbox module for gaming only. Free with Gamepass subscription. For everyone else $60 per year. Or something like that.
 
Pejo said:
If this is true, MS probably cares very little about consumer/gamer adoption at this phase, and are focusing on Enterprise where they basically have the professional world handcuffed.

Despicable and infinitely greedy, so it's probably all true.
Click to expand...
MS stopped caring about consumers the second they made Windows free for consumers to use. They only make money from enterprise since the Windows 10 era when it became free to upgrade from all previous versions. This is why they are cramming so much AI crap and adding subscription model, because the base OS is free

People hated paying for new versions of Windows but this is the consequence of making it free. Instead of paying for new versions, consumers pay in the form of bloated ad-filled subscription experiences. I would rather go back go Windows 7 and previous where the OS costed money but using it wasn't an exercise in runaway capitalist suffering

These days I just use Mac OS instead. I think of paying the Apple Tax as just funding going towards an OS and UI experience which isn't awful and it works out well for me
 
Last edited:
ReBurn said:
Microsoft has to know by now that the days of consumers paying for an operating system are over. They can probably wring licenses out of businesses but the average joe isn't going to subscribe to their own computer.
Click to expand...
I'm sure they do. They aren't bold enough to push a full-on subscription for Windows just yet. They will continue putting things behind a paywall until the base experience is so gimped you'd be stupid not to subscribe. Will likely take years to accomplish and they will only reverse course if there is legitimate competition.
 
"You have been using Windows Hell for 300 mins without proper verification OS will lock down permanently in 24 hrs if not verified. Download butthole verification software immediately to commence rectal scanning via TAINT-ID"
 
The future distopia is here.
Soon Steam will require a monthly subscription to access your library and help fund linux developments.
Epic games continue to offer free games on PC, but moves Fortnite completely to PS6, Switch 2 and Apple.
 
I use my phone for pretty much everything I used to use my PC for. I don't game on my PC. I use alternatives to MS Office. To be honest, I don't need anything from Microsoft at a consumer level at this point.

People think Microsoft is greedy and corrupt now, but the truth is they were even worse in the 90s. They cut shady deals to make sure they were preinstalled on PCs before sale and used their power and wealth to intimidate, buy out, or undercut any competition. I don't mean to be hyperbolic, but their business practices stunted a lot of OS growth. They also copied everyone else's homework.
 
Sounds like they want a LINUX kernal base, but with different "spins" for different usages. Gaming edition stripped of all work related stuff, Business stripped of all gaming related stuff etc at different prices. Still the force AI in base editions is bad. They need to just do a BASE vanilla OS and let me mnaully add all the services I want as add-ons even if they charge for these addons via a store or something would be better than forced stuff.

Once the AAA games support Anticheat more windows is going to lose a ton of gamers.
 
Magic Carpet said:
The future distopia is here.
Soon Steam will require a monthly subscription to access your library and help fund linux developments.
Epic games continue to offer free games on PC, but moves Fortnite completely to PS6, Switch 2 and Apple.
Click to expand...
What do Valve and Epic have to do with this :pie_open_mouth:? This is just the next step on Microsoft's journey to becoming fully an ai and subscription web services company. That's all.
 
Dorfdad said:
Once the AAA games support Anticheat more windows is going to lose a ton of gamers.
Click to expand...
If Nvidia really gets off their asses and makes their Linux drivers equivalent with their Windows drivers, then we'll see some real shit. As long as Linux gamers have to use AMD, Linux gaming will forever occupy a niche
 
Carlsway said:
Will Xbox Magnus run a version of this Windows?
Click to expand...
Almost certainly. Sorta like how the Xbox One was a lite version of Windows 8.

It's part of their strategy to turn everything into an Xbox. The experience / game library will be consistent across all devices (console, PC, handheld, Surface) and they can forever ditch the fragmented gaming experience they have now.

It's cool in theory but it's just another way to lock people into Windows and push yet another service (Game Pass) on people.

Man, Nutella sucks balls for the consumer side of Microsoft.
 
I will honestly learn to use Linux if this ever gets forced on me. Fuck off so much.

Future is here. What are people gonna do when they turn off support for Win11 by 2032.
 
so, sorry for the double post, but this is so fucking funny to me


You get to buy your hardware, for thousands and thousands of dollars because of AI

...then you get to rent the use of it from MS... so you can use the same AI?

lol
 
Unless this comes with an ai companion that talks dirty to you, why the fuck would I would want this in my OS? Subscription based? Windows 10 came with my laptop, and I could have upgraded for free if it wasn't such an old piece of shit. My point being, there were no on going fees to pay. I mean what the fuck? No on wants this, no one!
 
Pimpbaa said:
Unless this comes with an ai companion that talks dirty to you, why the fuck would I would want this in my OS? Subscription based? Windows 10 came with my laptop, and I could have upgraded for free if it wasn't such an old piece of shit. My point being, there were no on going fees to pay. I mean what the fuck? No on wants this, no one!
Click to expand...
I'm going to assume for now, that Magnus will come with the OS for a certain number of years.
For everyone else with Windows 10/11 your going to have to pay for the OS. Subscribe to the OS.
GTA6 2028 Windows 12 required? Maybe?
 
Unknown Soldier said:
If Nvidia really gets off their asses and makes their Linux drivers equivalent with their Windows drivers, then we'll see some real shit. As long as Linux gamers have to use AMD, Linux gaming will forever occupy a niche
Click to expand...
I thought the open drivers are perfectly fine now for modern Nvidias?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Techspot: Nvidia is reportedly cutting RTX 50-series production to focus on AI demand
Rumor Hardware 
26
418
dgrdsv replied
12 years a GAF
2
85
483
AJUMP23 replied
Christ Titus - Windows Agentic AI Malware
35
526
Durin replied
AMD set to increase Gamer GPU prices because of AI - Report
News 
29
991
FalconPunch replied
[Windows Blogs] Play more: Xbox app is now available on Arm-based Windows 11 PCs
3
147
Tobimacoss replied
Top Bottom