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Originally Posted by Damien
If they're doing a UI refresh of Windows I hope they don't just put another layer of UI on top of the existing one. It's bad enough that the more you drill down, the further you go back in Windows history with some dialog boxes looking unchanged from Windows 98.
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There has been doing on that on every major release. Mainly it's focused on the old Control Panel and moving elements to the modern 'Settings' area, but I think other elements have been moved and can imaging there will more of that in Windows 11.
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Originally Posted by Damien
This might also be a point where they are more aggressive in cutting out support for old hardware. 32 bit for example.
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Already done in part, but can't see that 32bit support for apps at aleast will be yet.
https://www.engadget.com/windows-10-...173055990.html
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Microsoft states that, “Beginning with Windows 10, version 2004, all new Windows 10 systems will be required to use 64-bit builds and Microsoft will no longer release 32-bit builds for OEM distribution.” In other words, any computer you buy in the future that has Windows 10 preloaded will be running the 64-bit version.
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Windows only supports 64bit capable CPUs now anyway as far a I know and supported Intel chips only support Windows 10
https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/...rocessors.html
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Originally Posted by Damien
Also, fully unified support for ARM processors and things that won't compile for both x86 and ARM could also be deprecated to enforce that. Microsoft will be concerned at what's happening at Apple with their M-series chips and can't afford for Windows to be left behind because their legacy support holds them back from successful pushes into ARM tables and laptops.
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And I think that's this
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...oject-reunion/
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Project Reunion is a set of new developer components and tools that represent the next evolution in the Windows app development platform. Project Reunion provides a unified set of APIs and tools that can be used in a consistent way by any desktop app on a broad set of target Windows 10 OS versions.
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