Microsoft Might Finally Simplify Its Windows 11 Update Names (theverge.com) 21
Microsoft could be preparing to name its next big OS update the "Windows 11 2022 Update." A report adds: References to this naming have appeared in near-final versions of the next big Windows 11 release, currently named 22H2. Twitter user XenoPanther spotted the Windows 11 2022 Update naming in the Get Started app that appears when you set up a new PC. The naming could simply be a placeholder, or it could indicate Microsoft is finally simplifying its often confusing update names for Windows. We've seen a variety of names over the years, including the Creators Update naming for a big Windows 10 update, more mundane naming like the Windows 10 May 2021 Update, and more recently, the Windows 10 21H2 moniker. Microsoft had considered naming its updates after animals or people but transitioned to the more safe monthly naming instead of point releases like Apple does with iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and many other software updates. A move to just the yearly naming for Windows 11 updates would make sense if Microsoft is planning fewer big drops of features.
Better idea (Score:5, Funny)
Just drop the 11. So Windows 11 2022 becomes Windows 22. Windows that would release in 2095 could be called Windows 95. Which would then be superseded 3 years later by Windows 98.
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Go to roman numerals, Windows MC for 2100.
Another Better Idea (Score:5, Insightful)
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Don't worry about naming. Worry about updates not breaking existing instances, not forcing useless "features", and not removing useful features.
All those vaunted, overpaid programmers have to earn their keep somehow.
Sounds about right (Score:5, Funny)
The naming could simply be a placeholder, or it could indicate Microsoft is finally simplifying its often confusing update names for Windows.
"Windows 11 Placeholder" -- I like it.
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good, good :-)
i still name it "windows ms-you-can-suck-my-tpm" and i have to say, this is by far the best windows update ever: i get critical security updates and that's it. is like they didn't know i existed. such luxury! can you believe that? :O)
it won't last forever, though. meh, nothing does.
The naming isn't difficult as it is (Score:4, Interesting)
The old naming scheme is just the last two digits of the year and the timeframe of release. Windows 10 1701 was released in January of 2017. How hard is that?
The versioning DOES matter, though, because Microsoft likes to move and migrate things from Control Panel applets to whatever place the Poltergeist of User Experience feels like leaving them in each new version. This can be pretty awful when you're trying to help someone who has successfully managed to skip every possible update since 2015, but the differences are very minor to anyone who doesn't spend all day looking through configuration interfaces..
If Microsoft wants to pretend those different versions don't matter and that the UI changes aren't just teensy little things, maybe they should tell people they actually are getting a new Windows every six months.
Simple Naming is Good (Score:2)
Simplifying the names of the updates is good, but it would be much better if they worked on the AI that controls the timing of updates and their installation. Now, this algorithm appears to aim for maximum inconvenience. It starts an update at an unexpected time -- when your taxi is outside waiting for you, for example -- and then demands that you do not turn off or touch the machine until the update is complete, with dire threats about what will happen if you disobey. It takes a long time because thousa
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Spring Creators Update (Score:3)
That's a much better naming convention than the one-time Spring Creators Update and Fall Creators Update. I always felt those weren't named appropriately for people who weren't in the business of creating springs and falls.
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B. Not that "Redstone" or "Threshold 2" were any clearer.
Experience? (Score:3)
I'm currently running "Experience Pack 120.2212.4180.0".
Seems like an easy to understand naming scheme to me, you insensitive clods.
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Why not name the update after the dropped feature? (Score:3)
You could call them WIN 11 - nternet Explorer removed or WIN 11 - Bitlocker removed. It might make it easier to figure out what has broken and why.
Win11 is rather inefficient (Score:1)
What's so complicated about the current scheme? (Score:3)
So, who the hell complained that it was confusing and why the hell did MS listen to someone who is so clearly an idiot?
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And here I... (Score:1)
...just understood what the damn "number" denoted.